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EBOOK, THE GREAT BOER WAR ***


Project Gutenberg Etext of The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan
Doyle.
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E-text editor's note: It may come as a surprise that the creator of
Sherlock Holmes wrote a history of the Boer War. The then
40-year-old novelist wanted to see the war first hand as a soldier,
but the Victorian army balked at having a popular author wielding a
pen in its ranks. The army did accept him as a doctor and Doyle was
knighted in 1902 for his work with a field hospital in
Bloemfontein. Doyle's vivid description of the battles is probably
thanks to the eye-witness accounts he got from his patients. This,
the best book on the Boer War I've encountered, is a long out of
print lost classic that I stumbled across in a Cape Town
second-hand bookstore.
Robert Laing.
Proofed by Sue Asscher asschers@bigpond.com
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THE GREAT BOER WAR
BY
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER 1. THE BOER NATIONS.
CHAPTER 2. THE CAUSE OF QUARREL.
CHAPTER 3. THE NEGOTIATIONS.


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