Diana Preston's popular narrative history of the Boxer Rebellion's climactic summer of 1900, covering the siege of the Beijing legations and the international relief campaign, drawing on published memoirs, diplomatic records and secondary scholarship.
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Reliability TierA widely read popular history rather than a specialist academic monograph, useful for its narrative detail and its discussion of casualty estimates, but secondary to the academic literature for interpretive questions. Cross-Tradition Connections
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- Wars & Conflicts, 9 claims: 4 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Articles, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
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