Milner: Last of the Empire Builders
Milner: Last of the Empire Builders, the first biography of Milner by a South African, is Richard Steyn’s take on a controversial figure who changed the course of South African history.
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Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness
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.
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Also available in Afrikaans as Jan Smuts: Afrikaner sonder grense
External Mission
This book aims to provide a full account of the ANC’s years in exile, penetrating the secrecy that the organisation erected around itself and testing the myths that emerged from that period.
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A Russian on Commando
A gripping portrayal of human frailty and courage in the face of mortal danger, A Russian on Commando highlights both the strange attraction and the absurdities of war.
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General Jan Smuts
Jan Smuts’s abilities as a general have been much denigrated by modern historians. David Brock Katz makes use of multiple archival sources and many of the official accounts of 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 the First World War.
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Louis Botha: A Man Apart
In A Man Apart Richard Steyn once again brings to life a South African icon in the first comprehensive, modern biography of this great South African.
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When They Came For Me
In 1969, while a student at Wits University, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and eventually deported. Interrogated through sleep deprivation, he later wrote secretly in solitary confinement about the struggle for survival. In this exquisitely written memoir, written half a century after the event, the author reflects on the singing of the condemned prisoners, the poetry, songs and texts that saw him through his ordeal, and its impact.
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Seven Votes
Bestselling Richard Steyn presents the first book to analyse in detail the impact of WWII on South Africa. The book brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters, including wartime leader Jan Smuts, DF Malan and his National Party colleagues, African nationalists from Anton Lembede and AB Xuma to Walter Sisulu and Nelson Mandela, the influential Indian activists Yusuf Dadoo and Monty Naicker, and many others.
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Two Weeks in November
Two Weeks in November reveals as yet unknown details of the political events surrounding Robert Mugabe’s fall – a dramatic retelling of the coup that wasn’t a coup, full of narrow escapes, brinkmanship and unlikely bedfellows.
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