Rhodes & Barnato - James Leasor

One became the architect of an empire. The other its greatest rival. Together they built the diamond industry that changed the world.Born just a year apart, Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnato could hardly have been more different. Rhodes was the son of a Hertfordshire clergyman; Barnato grew up in London's East End, the child of a Jewish immigrant family. Yet both were drawn to the diamond fields of southern Africa, where ambition and ruthless determination transformed them into two of the richest and... Zobrazit více