The Great Boer War. Артур Конан Дойл
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- Издательство: Public Domain(2014)
- Возрастная категория: 12+
- ISBN: 978-5-457-64892-0
- Страниц: 886
- Язык: Русский
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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.
