Howard Carter had spent five long years in the hot, dry desert, searching for the tomb of the Ancient Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamun. But what he found when he ventured deeper and deeper into the tomb was gold and treasure beyond his wildest dreams.
The author, who lives in Shanghai, sets out to demonstrate that the British military has been at the forefront of many of the great changes that have swept China over the last two centuries.
Celebes Sea, May 1920 : battered by a typhoon, the Expedient is shipwrecked on a volcanic island. No radio, no rescue, no escape.