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Milner - Last of the Empire Builders (Hardcover)
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Milner - Last of the Empire Builders (Hardcover)
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List price R620
Loot Price R496
Discovery Miles 4 960
You Save R124 (20%)
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'Engagingly written, as unputdownable as a biography gets'
Financial Mail 'A rich and beautifully nuanced portrait of Milner
... a great feat, given all the paradoxical complexities of the
man's life and character.' Duncan Campbell-Smith, former Financial
Times and Economist journalist From the acclaimed biographer of Jan
Smuts, a revealing new account of Empire-builder and First World
War Cabinet minister Lord Alfred Milner. Alfred Milner was one of
Britain's most famous empire builders who both contributed to the
Allied victory in the First World War and left an indelible imprint
on the history of South Africa. Yet his legacy is contested and
little understood. Largely responsible for the Boer War - a
conflict marking the beginning of the end of the British Empire -
afterwards Milner helped to unify South Africa, but brewed
resentment among Afrikaners. In Britain, from 1916, Milner was part
of Lloyd George's five-man War Cabinet, and the driving force
behind the Imperial War Cabinet which increased the status of
Britain's Dominions. In this comprehensively researched, first
full-length biography by a South African, Richard Steyn argues that
Milner's reputation should not be solely defined by his eight
years' service in South Africa. If he was the wrong man to send to
that country, he was the right person in a far greater
international conflict.
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