Boer War
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The Boer War was a complex war, often referred to as the Boor War (have you seen what those guys looked like?), and the Bore War (have you read any histories of the thing?) that took place in South Africa at the end of the nineteenth century.
It is perhaps most notable for the creation of the concentration camp.
[edit] In fiction
Probably the most influential depiction of the conflict, to later generations, was the story Breaker Morant by the Australian writer Kenneth G. Ross, dramatising the trial of three Aussie (pronounced "Ozzie") army officers on a charge of shooting prisoners of war. It became a stage play and then a widely-admired (1980) film. It depicted everyone involved as a right bastard. The "message" was that war makes people into right bastards.