Arthur Conan Doyle - The Boer War of 1899-1902. Gift book bound in leather

The struggle for South Africa witnessed by a military surgeon

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle is an English writer of Irish descent, the author of numerous adventure, historical, journalistic, fantastic and humorous works.

Arthur Conan Doyle, as a direct witness and participant in the Anglo-Boer War as a military surgeon, told her story "... with limited data, but with a great desire to do everything carefully and objectively." This war, being the final stage of Britain's struggle to assert dominance in South Africa, brought a lot of new things to military affairs: smokeless gunpowder, machine guns, explosive bullets "dum-dum", khaki protective color in soldiers' uniforms, field telegraph, barbed wire.She made a deep impression on her contemporaries, and Conan Doyle's book, published at the end of 1900, had gone through eighteen editions by 1902! The venerable writer constantly supplemented his work with new chapters and applied his gift of storytelling to the benefit of the empire. Today, this book deserves the attention of everyone who is interested in the military and political history of the era of the great colonial empires of the late XIX - early XX century and loves the work of this great writer.