The Great Boer War Anglo-Boer War Reprint Library Volume 1 Deluxe Bound Edition 18/50

The Great Boer War - Anglo-Boer War Reprint Library Volume 1 Deluxe Bound Edition 18/50 

Author Publisher: C Struik 

Edition: Eighteenth 1976 - Deluxe Bound Edition 18/50 

ISBN: 0 86977 074 8 

Language: English 

Condition: Mint. Clean copy with tight binding. 

Binding: Hardcover Deluxe bound edition. Full leather. Titling on spine on a leather patch affixed to the second panel.. 

Pages: 769. Print with maps 

Additional Information

Arthur Conan Doyle made his reputation as a novelist, but far stranger than fiction is the creator of Sherlock Holmes' tale of the Boer War in South Africa. 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 account of the battles is in part thanks to the eye-witness accounts he got from his patients. Doyle has thoroughly mastered the details of the campaign, and presents them in a form that can be easily understood. Furthermore, his descriptions of the various engagements are masterpieces of graphic writing. ..."This sketch of the war is a masterly performance. It is hardly possible to over-praise it. . . . The experience, the artistic sense, and the creative powers of a great writer are seen in the achievement." - DAILY NEWS

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