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Arthur Conan Doyle's The Great Boer War was first published in 1900. Doyle served as a doctor in a hospital during the conflict and wrote this book to justify the UK's role in it. The book covers the whole war, giving an account of the causes of the war, of those killed or wounded, and the political and military situation as Doyle experienced it.
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In Doyles The Firm of Girdlestone (1890) is a romance, John Girdlestone and his son Ezra are the owners of a successful firm that is going bankrupt. To avoid bankruptcy, Girdlestone stoops to lying, cheating, and even to commit murder.
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Arthur Conan Doyle's The Refugees (1893) is a historical novel that unfolds in the late seventeenth century in both the royal court of France and the wilds of Canada. Amory de Catinat, a Huguenot guardsman of Louis XIV, and his cousin flee from France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. In their attempt to reach America, they are stranded on an iceberg and must trek through Canadian forests in search of refuge.