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Cambridge University Press, 1968., 1968. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1968. No Edition Remarks. 590 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth and gilt lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages remain bright with minimal tanning. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and spine is presentable with minimal crushing and tanning. Unclipped jacket. Jacket has light edge-wear with closed tears and creasing.

Cambridge University Press, , 1968. Hardback.. Very good condition./Very good lightly edgeworn and rubbed dust jacket..

Cambridge University Press, 1968. Vol 2 only. 590 pp. White endpapers, with previous owner's name on front paste-down endpaper. Green cloth with gilt titles. Corners lightly bumped. Orange DJ with b/w photo. Faded spine, light wear along the edges. VG+/VG. First Edition.

Cambridge; 1962-1968: Cambridge University Press. First Editions. Octavo. Volume I: The Sanguine Years, 1870-1919, half-title, 618(1) pages, portrait frontispiece, folded maps (some in color), facsimiles. Volume II: The Fields of Force, 1919-1950. Half-title, xiii, 590 pages. index. Sir Keith Hancock established the Smuts archive and began this major history which begins with his early history which led to his role as Prime Minister of South Africa. He avoided the call for "native enfranchisement". At the outbreak of World War I, he was able to suppress a rebellion and overcome the Germans and their ambitions in South Africa. He was made a minister of Britain's war cabinet and considered important by Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson. His role increased while he wished to return one day to a simple rural life though each morning he would read his Greek New Testament while dealing with issues including his seeing like Winston Churchill that Mussolini and Hitler could not be reasoned with as the… Read More