The Great Boer War

The Great Boer War

"The Great Boer War" is a non-fiction work on the Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1900. By the end of the war in 1902 the book had been published in 16 editions, constantly revised by Doyle. The Introduction describes the book as: [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext02/gboer11.txt "The Great Boer War"] , A. Conan Doyle, 1900, Introduction]

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