Peking 1900
The Boxer Rebellion
In 1900 a violent rebellion swept northern China - the Boxer Rebellion. The Boxers were a secret society who sought to rid their country of the pernicious influence of the foreign powers who had gradually acquired a stranglehold on China. With the connivance of the Imperial Court they laid siege to the legation quarter of Peking. Trapped inside were an assortment of diplomats, civilians and a small number of troops. They were all Sir Claude Macdonald, the British Minister in Peking, had to defend against thousands of hostile Boxers and Imperial troops. It would now be a race against time. Could the rag-tag defenders hold out long enough for t…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84176-181-7
- EAN: 9781841761817
- Produktnummer: 9398765
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Masse: H25.0 cm x B18.5 cm x D1.0 cm 356 g
- Abbildungen: 70 b&w and 14 colour illustrations, chronology, index
- Gewicht: 356
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Peter Harrington, illustrated by Alan Perry, Michael Perry
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