General Smuts: South Africa [Hardcover]

Jan Smuts was one of the key figures behind the creation of the League of Nations; Wilson was inspired by his ideas, including the mandates scheme. He pleaded for a magnanimous peace, warning that the treaty of Versailles would lead to another war.

Antony Lentin is a Senior Member at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Barrister and formerly a Professor of History at the Open University, he is the author of Lloyd George and the Lost Peace (2001), The Last Political Law Lord: Lord Sumner (1859-1934) (2009) and a biography of Sir Edgar Speyer(2012). He has published widely on 18th-century Russia and edited The Odes of Horace for Wordsworth Classics (1997).