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Women at the Siege, Peking 1900 (Paperback)
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Women at the Siege, Peking 1900 (Paperback)
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On 20 June 1900, Baron von Ketteler, the German Minister, was
assassinated in a Peking street. By 4pm the first shots were fired
into the legation quarter and the siege of foreigners by Boxers and
imperial troops had begun. Among the besieged were 148 women from
America, Europe, Russia and Japan and Maud, the Baron's American
widow. What were their experiences? How did they cope with their 79
children for two months, without enough to eat, often under fire?
This book tells their story - of courage, grief, humour,
friendship, ill-health, and hard work - mostly through their own
accounts. It identifies the women for the first time as
individuals: missionary teachers and doctors, "globe trotters", and
the wives of diplomats, officials, railway engineers, merchants,
bankers and the owner of the Peking Hotel.
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