GENERAL LOUIS BOTHA (1929) - in original dust jacket

Publisher's green cloth binding with gilt titles on front panel and spine.

352pp. Portrait plates, maps, and text illustrations all present.

Binding sound. Contents clean apart from occasional light foxing spots. The scarce original dust jacket with moderate age-associated wear but still good.

'Dr Engelenburg is a well-known South African journalist and Editor of Die Volkstem, Pretoria. His close friendship with Botha and the access he has had to much valuable documentary material have eminently fitted him for his task. As a statesman and man of action Botha's achievement is, as General Smuts says, unique. By sheer force of personality this simple Boer boy rose to be "the architect above all others of the Union of South Africa." The forty-one chapters of the book show different phases of his life - his early days and his share in the Boer War, culminating in the Treaty of Vereeniging; his relations with Kitchener, Milner, Campbell-Bannerman, and Asquith, and with the South African leaders; his Premiership of the new Union; and his part during the Great War and at the Paris Peace Conference. The picture here drawn presents a very distinguished  man of great practical wisdom and innate fineness of character.'