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Sandbags And Champagne

Foil fifty-five hot, smelly, frightened and muddle- headed days in the summer of 1900 the eleven foreign legations irk Peking were beleaguered by an inefficient rabble of cruel,......

Early Pessimism

Judgements on History and Historians. By Jacob Burckhardt. With an Introduction by H. R. Trevor-Roper. (Allen and Unwin, 18s.) WHEN Jacob Burckhardt died in 1897 he was known as......