Friendship between Churchill and Smuts discussed at forum
Richard Steyn returns to speak about his latest book on the relationship between two iconic figures of twentieth century politics.
FRIENDS of Kloof Library Forum are delighted to welcome Richard Steyn back to the forum after his successful talk on Jan Smuts last year.
He returns to speak about his latest book on the relationship between two iconic figures of twentieth century politics: Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts.
Publishers Jonathan Ball commented: “The remarkable, and often touching, friendship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts is a rich study in contrasts.
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“In youth they occupied very different worlds: Churchill, the rambunctious and thrusting young aristocrat; Smuts, the aesthetic, philosophical Cape farm boy who would go on to Cambridge. Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer War, and later as allies in the First World War, the men forged a friendship which spanned the first half of the twentieth century and endured until Smuts’ death in 1950.”
Steyn’s talk titled, Churchill and Smuts: the friendship, will be held at the Kloof Junior Primary School hall on Abelia Road in Kloof, on Thursday, 30 November at 6pm.
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Tickets, which cost R50 for visitors and R35 for paid-up members of the Friends, can be booked at the Kloof Library on 031 764 7543. Payment is at the door.
Books will be on sale at a discounted price of R200. Cash only.
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