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Author : Sarah Gertrude Millin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
General Smuts written by Sarah Gertrude Millin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with South Africa categories.
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Author : Sarah Gertrude Millin
language : en
Publisher: Simon Publications
Release Date : 2001-10-01
General Smuts written by Sarah Gertrude Millin and has been published by Simon Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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Author : Sarah Gertrude Millin
language : en
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Release Date : 1936
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Author : Antony Lentin
language : en
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Release Date : 2010-04-01
General Smuts written by Antony Lentin and has been published by Haus Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with History categories.
Jan Smuts was one of the key figures behind the creation of the League of Nations; Wilson was inspired by his ideas, including the mandates scheme. He pleaded for a magnanimous peace, warning that the treaty of Versailles would lead to another war.
Jan Smuts
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Author : Richard Steyn
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Release Date : 2015-09-01
Jan Smuts written by Richard Steyn and has been published by Jonathan Ball Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness is a re-examination of the life and thoughts of Jan Smuts. It is intended to remind a contemporary readership of the remarkable achievements of this impressive soldier-statesman. The author, a former editor of The Star, argues that Smut's role in the creation of modern South Africa should never be forgotten, not least because of his lifetime of devoted service to this country. The book draws a parallel between Smuts and President Thabo Mbeki, both architects of a new South Africa, much lionised abroad yet often distrusted at home. This highly readable account of Smut's eventful life blends fact, anecdote and opinion in an examination of his complex character, his relationships with women, spiritual and intellectual life and role as advisor to world leaders. Politics and international affairs receive the most attention, but Smut's unique contributions in a variety of other fields, including botany, conservation and philosophy, also receive attention. Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness does not shy away from the contradictions of its subject. Smuts was one of the architects of the United Nations and a great champion of human rights, yet he could not come to terms with the need to include the African majority in the politics of his own country.
General Jan Smuts And His First World War In Africa 1914 1917
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Author : David Brock Katz
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2022-05-19
General Jan Smuts And His First World War In Africa 1914 1917 written by David Brock Katz and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A new assessment of Jan Smuts’s military leadership through examination of his World War I campaigning, demonstrating that he was a gifted general, conversant with the craft of maneuver warfare, and a command style steeped in the experiences of his time as a Boer general. World War I ushered in a renewed scramble for Africa. At its helm, Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realize his ambition of a Greater South Africa. He set his sights upon the vast German colonies of South-West Africa and East Africa – the demise of which would end the Kaiser’s grandiose schemes for Mittelafrika. As part of his strategy to shift South Africa’s borders inexorably northward, Smuts even cast an eye toward Portuguese and Belgian African possessions. Smuts, his abilities as a general much denigrated by both his contemporary and then later modern historians, was no armchair soldier. This cabinet minister and statesman donned a uniform and led his men into battle. He learned his soldiery craft under General Koos De la Rey's tutelage, and another soldier-statesman, General Louis Botha during the South African War 1899–1902. He emerged from that war, immersed in the Boer maneuver doctrine he devastatingly waged in the guerrilla phase of that conflict. His daring and epic invasion of the Cape at the head of his commando remains legendary. The first phase of the German South West African campaign and the Afrikaner Rebellion in 1914 placed his abilities as a sound strategic thinker and a bold operational planner on display. Champing at the bit, he finally had the opportunity to command the Southern Forces in the second phase of the German South West African campaign. Placed in command of the Allied forces in East Africa in 1916, he led a mixed bag of South Africans and Imperial troops against the legendary Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his Shutztruppe. Using his penchant for Boer maneuver warfare together with mounted infantry led and manned by Boer Republican veterans, he proceeded to free the vast German territory from Lettow-Vorbeck’s grip. Often leading from the front, his operational concepts were an enigma to the British under his command, remaining so to modern-day historians. Although unable to bring the elusive and wily Lettow-Vorbeck to a final decisive battle, Smuts conquered most of the territory by the end of his tenure in February 1917. General Jan Smuts and His First World War in Africa makes use of multiple archival sources and the official accounts of all the participants to provide a long-overdue reassessment of Smuts’s generalship and his role in furthering the strategic aims of South Africa and the British Empire in Africa during World War I.
General Jan Smuts And His First World War In Africa 1914 19 17
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Author : David Brock Katz
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Release Date : 2022-08-24
General Jan Smuts And His First World War In Africa 1914 19 17 written by David Brock Katz and has been published by Jonathan Ball Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-24 with History categories.
'An engaging, well-written and meticulously researched military biography ...' – Tim Stapleton, Professor, Department of History, University of Calgary Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realise his ambition of a Greater South Africa when the First World War ushered in a final scramble for Africa. He set his sights firmly northward upon the German colonies of South West Africa and East Africa. Smuts's abilities as a general have been much denigrated by his contemporaries and later historians, but he was no armchair soldier. He first learned his soldier's craft under General Koos de la Rey and General Louis Botha during the South African War (1899−1902). He emerged from that conflict immersed in Boer manoeuvre doctrine. After forming the Union Defence Force in 1912, Smuts played an integral part in the German South West African campaign in 1915. Placed in command of the Allied forces in East Africa in 1916, he led a mixed bag of South Africans and imperial troops against the legendary Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his Schutztruppen. His penchant for manoeuvre warfare and mounted infantry freed most of the vast German territory from Lettow-Vorbeck's grip. General Jan Smuts and his First World War in Africa provides a long-overdue reassessment of Smuts's generalship and his role in furthering the strategic aims of South Africa and the British Empire during this era.
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language : en
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Release Date : 1943
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General Smuts Campaign In East Africa
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Author : John Henry Verinder Crowe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1918
General Smuts Campaign In East Africa written by John Henry Verinder Crowe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1918 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
Jan Smuts Being A Character Sketch Of Gen The Hon J C Smuts K C M L A Minister Of Defence Union Of South Africa
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Author : Naphtali Levy
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
Jan Smuts Being A Character Sketch Of Gen The Hon J C Smuts K C M L A Minister Of Defence Union Of South Africa written by Naphtali Levy and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... VII LONDON TO "PRAATFONTEIN" The visit to London was of a private nature. General Smuts said so. A journalist, however, is a surly, suspicious sort of person at the best of times, and so there were newspapers, both in South 'Africa and in England, that attached a political significance to the journey. It is possible, of course, that a man travels to London on private business, and yet finds both occasion and opportunity to combine that private business with what might be called public pleasure! There was a LiberaLGovernment in power.' Fate, the Jester, had come in Chinese-yellow garment to sweep away the Conservative Administration that had risen from strength to strength on the khaki wave of South African conquest. Questions of franchise, representation, redistribution, and delimitation of constituencies and such-like were on the tapis in the Transvaal. The Pall Mall Gazette of the 25th of January 1906 considered all this, taken in conjunction with the appearance of General Smuts on the Metropolitan horizon, serious enough to remind its readers that "British colonists have learned before now to tremble at the thought of a Liberal Government, and they may well prepare to face the - worst. . . ." One wonders whether General Smuts is still looked upon in those nervous newspaper offices as quite such a sinister figure. The Evening Standard proposed to give the victim an opportunity of stating his case. It attempted to interview him. General Smuts "courteously declined." "I can say nothing to the Press," he said; "I never do." The proverb has it that," never is a long time," but in the whole course of his career General Smuts has certainly granted very few Press interviews--for publication. He did say, to the Evening Standard's young man, ...
