Download or read book The Great Boer War Volume 1 of 2 (EasyRead Comfort Edition) written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 40-year-old novelist Conan Doyle 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.