Just when many believed Jan Smuts to be a fading, almost forgotten figure of SA history, another biography of the old field marshal is on the shelves — and author David Brock Katz does him a good turn.
Katz is an extraordinary historian, someone who ran away from accounting to join the army. He became the first Citizen Force soldier to talk his way into the Military Academy at Saldanha, which at the time was open only to the professionals, and where he recently obtained a PhD in history...
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