The Great Boer War

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 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 are probably thanks to the eye-witness
accounts he got from his patients.

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