General Smuts

by Sarah Gertrude Millin

Overview

Painstakingly documented, expertly written, even proofread by General Smuts himself, this is not only an engaging history of Africa but an invaluable description of the first world war, President Wilson's plans and the resulting peace treaties.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781931541299
Publisher:	Simon Publications
Publication date:	12/28/1936
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

Table of Contents

I	Boers and Britons	3
II	Smuts Wants a Friend	9
III	He Says He Has No Taste	16
IV	He Discovers Shelley	26
V	He Goes to Cambridge	32
VI	He Analyses Whitman	39
VII	He Praises Rhodes	50
VIII	Kruger and Milner	57
IX	Smuts: Second-Class Burgher: State Attorney	71
X	The Uitlanders Appeal to Her Majesty	77
XI	Who Made the Boer War?	81
XII	"Flying Fox Won the Derby"	88
XIII	Smuts Tries to Prevent War	95
XIV	"A Century of Wrong"	106
XV	Life's Greatest Satisfaction	111
XVI	Boer Dream	116
XVII	Boer Despair	123
XVIII	Guerrilla	130
XIX	Commandant-General Smuts	137
XX	"My Duty"	151
XXI	Peace	160
XXII	"My Soul Is Weary of My Life"	174
XXIII	Celestial Messengers	187
XXIV	Smuts and Campbell-Bannerman	197
XXV	Smuts and Botha	203
XXVI	Smuts and Gandhi	216
XXVII	A Union of Brothers	232
XXVIII	That Three Hundred Pounds	238
XXIX	Merely Jan Christian Smuts	242
XXX	The Dissatisfaction of General Hertzog	249
XXXI	Smuts Versus Strikers	257
XXXII	German Administration in Africa	270
XXXIII	German Ambition in Africa	276
XXXIV	Number Fifteen on a Dark Cloud	288
XXXV	The Five Shilling Rebellion	296
XXXVI	The First Allied Success: German South-West Africa	301
XXXVII	"This Hell into Which I Have Wandered"	305
XXXVIII	Lieutenant-General Smuts	312
XXXIX	The Conquest of German East Africa	321
XL	The British War Cabinet	327
	Chronological Table	331
	Published Sources	335
	References	339
	Index	351