Peter Fleming’s The Siege at Peking, First Edition, 1959

Peter Fleming’s retirement project was a history of the Boxer Uprising…The Siege at Peking….

The first edition was published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1959.

“Fleming’s comprehensive account of The Battle of Peking, fought on 14th–15th August 1900, in which the Eight-Nation Alliance relieved the siege of the Peking Legation Quarter during the Boxer Rebellion. Foreign diplomats had been besieged by Boxers (a secret society named after the martial art of Chinese boxing) and the Imperial Chinese Army. Liberators from the alliance included European superpowers (British Indian Infantry, French Indochinese artillery, Russian Cossacks and German troops), joined by the Japanese army and United States Marines.”