GREY STEEL JC Smuts - HC Armstrong

Methuen, 1951

Hardcover, no jacket, spine is sunned. There is a lot of foxing to the first few pages and the edges. A reading copy.

 From the author's note: ''In this book I have described the development of the character of an unique personality given exceptional opportunities, of Jan Christian Smuts, the South African. I have described frankly and without bias. I have worked through vast quantities of books and documents, together with his own writings and speeches. I have visited South Africa and watched him in the House of Assembly, at dinners, at receptions, at private luncheons. I have visited his birthplace, his school and college, the houses he has lived in, and his places of work. I have discussed him with his associates and with his opponents, with his admirers and with his detractors in England, France, and South Africa. I have been able to talk with men and women who have known him at each stage of his career, and so to give me vivid and authentic descriptions of his manners and actions.''