{"product_id":"2026200016789-secondhand-the-siege-at-peking","title":"The Siege At Peking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\nFleming, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49309681123547,"sku":"2026200016789-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5945e442-6ca4-444a-a145-f99a1701d80c.png?v=1789455251","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016789-secondhand-the-siege-at-peking","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}