"The Boxer uprising; the siege of the legations; 55 days in Peking; foreign troops looting China's capital; these are images from books and films over the past

Reconstructs the events surrounding the siege of the foreign legations in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900.

This book provides a first-hand account of the Siege of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. Martin, a medical missionary at the time, tells the story of