Author: Armstrong, H C
Title: Grey Steel - J C Smuts, A Study In Arrogance
Description: Arthur Barker Ltd, 1937, 2nd impression. Cloth, VG. 406pp, b/w frontis, 1 b/w plate, endpaper maps, 4 b/w maps, 6 text illustrations, index, spine sunned & rubbed at the head, cloth worn at the corners, a nice copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Unbiased biography of Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts [ 1870 - 1950 ] who was a leading figure in World Politics in the interwar years. He can be credited with the founding of the League of Nations, he was the only person to sign the Declaratiosn of Peace for both World Wars, was an early anti apartheid campaigner & was one of five members of the British War Cabinet who were responsible for the formation of the Royal Air Force.

Keywords: biography, military, south africa, world war one, world war 2, transvaal, politics