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Siege life

Arthur H. Smith

出版	F.H. Revell Company, 1901
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CJZR9jgrYZMC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

" ... The sensational details of the alleged massacre in the British Legation on the 7th of July [1900] ... when followed by a knowledge of the principal facts, riveted the attention of all nations. The absolute novelty, the intense dramatic interest, the world-wide scope, and the far-reaching consequences of the events which have taken place in China combine to differentiate the Convulsion in that Empire from anything in history ... It is the design of the present work, while giving in considerable detail the events connected with the siege in Peking, to sketch the important outlines of the events to which that formed the climax ..."--Preface, p. ix-x