The Siege At Peking
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
In the sweltering summer of 1900, a desperate band of foreign diplomats, missionaries, and soldiers found themselves trapped behind the walls of Peking's Legation Quarter, besieged by the fanatical Boxer rebels and the imperial armies of China — and The Siege at Peking chronicles this extraordinary fifty-five-day ordeal with the precision of a historian and the vivid pulse of a born storyteller. Peter Fleming reconstructs the dramatic events of the Boxer Rebellion, presenting the chaos, heroism, and tragedy of one of history's most gripping episodes of East-West confrontation, drawing on first-hand accounts, dispatches, and diaries to bring the suffocating tension of those weeks vividly to life. Fleming, brother of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and himself a celebrated travel writer and journalist, writes with a crisp, authoritative intelligence that cuts through imperial mythology to reveal the very human story beneath the geopolitical spectacle. His narrative illuminates the contradictions of the colonial age — the arrogance and the courage, the absurdity and the sacrifice — leaving the reader with a haunting portrait of an empire on the brink of collapse. A masterwork of narrative history, this account will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about the death throes of Imperial China.
Author: Peter Fleming
Format: Hardback
Published: 1960, Readers Union / Rupert Hart-Davis
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
In the sweltering summer of 1900, a desperate band of foreign diplomats, missionaries, and soldiers found themselves trapped behind the walls of Peking's Legation Quarter, besieged by the fanatical Boxer rebels and the imperial armies of China — and The Siege at Peking chronicles this extraordinary fifty-five-day ordeal with the precision of a historian and the vivid pulse of a born storyteller. Peter Fleming reconstructs the dramatic events of the Boxer Rebellion, presenting the chaos, heroism, and tragedy of one of history's most gripping episodes of East-West confrontation, drawing on first-hand accounts, dispatches, and diaries to bring the suffocating tension of those weeks vividly to life. Fleming, brother of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and himself a celebrated travel writer and journalist, writes with a crisp, authoritative intelligence that cuts through imperial mythology to reveal the very human story beneath the geopolitical spectacle. His narrative illuminates the contradictions of the colonial age — the arrogance and the courage, the absurdity and the sacrifice — leaving the reader with a haunting portrait of an empire on the brink of collapse. A masterwork of narrative history, this account will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about the death throes of Imperial China.