Originally Posted by
DeltaboundRedux
"Jan Christian Smuts: A Biography" written by his son of the same name. Probably a bit of a hagiography, but since it was a son writing about his father that's ok.
I'd never heard of the guy before this. Very interesting life. (He interrogated W. Churchill when he was captured during the Boer War) Kicked off a lifelong friendship.
Accomplished all kinds of things. I wouldn't seek the book out, necessarily, but it was a great discovery in a pilot lounge library.
Thanks delta.
I had assumed it was a book written by him, rather than his biography.
Had to google him as I hadn't heard of him either.
Sometimes the unexpected reads can be the most fun.
Picked up "When the Emperor was Divine" from one of those street corner community box libraries. Had never heard of it. Glad to have stumbled on it.