Download or read book The Siege of the Peking Embassy, 1900 written by Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of the lives of diplomats stranded inside the Legation buildings in Peking during the Boxer Uprising. Told through diplomatic papers and the diary of the British ambassador in Peking, Sir Claude MacDonald.