Indiscreet Letters From Peking: Letters Written by One of the Besieged From the Boxer Uprising to the Sack of the City - Couverture rigide

Weale, Bertram Lenox Putnam

 
9780857063205: Indiscreet Letters From Peking: Letters Written by One of the Besieged From the Boxer Uprising to the Sack of the City
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ISBN 10 : 0857063200 ISBN 13 : 9780857063205
Editeur : Leonaur Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Besieged by the Boxers by one of the besieged

For those interested in the siege of the legations at Peking in 1900, this remarkable book has many advantages. Its text is taken from letters written and despatched as the events unfolded and together they offer a substantial account that reveals the progress of the crisis to its inevitable conflagration. The atmosphere of unease within the city is palpable to the reader up to the point the writer introduces us to 'the Society of the Harmonious Fist'-the fearsome Boxers. Weale then describes the siege in some detail, virtually on a day by day basis, with all its privations and with graphic accounts of fierce combat with the attacking Chinese forces. Finally, with the arrival of the relief column and foreign troops, the author tells of the sack of the city which is an aspect of the Siege of the Peking legations often absent from other accounts. Available in softcover and hardcover with dust jacket.

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Éditeur
Leonaur Ltd
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0857063200
ISBN 13 
9780857063205
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
328
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780857063199: Indiscreet Letters From Peking: Letters Written by One of the Besieged From the Boxer Uprising to the Sack of the City

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ISBN 10 :  0857063197 ISBN 13 :  9780857063199
Editeur : Leonaur Ltd, 2010
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