With the Allies to Pekin: A Tale of the Relief of the Legations
1903
The year is 1900. China has erupted in violent rebellion against foreign encroachment, and the Legations in Peking are under siege. Young Rex Bateman, just returned to England from Tientsin, finds himself drawn back into the chaos when the Boxers rise. What follows is a breathless race through war-torn China, as Rex fights alongside Allied forces to reach his family before it's too late. His trusted Chinese servant, Ah Lo, guides him through dangers both political and personal, their bond transcending the racial divides of the era. When Rex learns his cousins, two English girls, are trapped in the path of the Boxer advance, he makes a vow: nothing will stop him from reaching them. Henty delivers pulse-pounding rescue missions, desperate battles, and the complex dance between colonizer and colonized, all filtered through a boy's fierce determination to save those he loves. The novel captures an era when empires clashed and individual courage could still tip the scales of history.
