The War of the Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear
Title | The War of the Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear PDF eBook |
Author | Richard M. Connaughton |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 |
ISBN | 9780415071437 |
Rising Sun And Tumbling Bear
Title | Rising Sun And Tumbling Bear PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Connaughton |
Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Pages | 443 |
Release | 2020-02-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1474616801 |
The definitive history of the Russo-Japanese war The Russians were wrong-footed from the start, fighting in Manchuria at the end of a 5,000 mile single track railway; the Japanese were a week or so from their bases. The Russian command structure was hopelessly confused, their generals old and incompetent, the Tsar cautious and uncertain. The Russian naval defeat at Tsushima was as farcical as it was complete. The Japanese had defeated a big European power, and the lessons for the West were there for all to see, had they cared to do so. From this curious war, so unsafely ignored for the most part by the military minds of the day, Richard Connaughton has woven a fascinating narrative to appeal to readers at all levels.
The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905
Title | The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905 PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Jukes |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 117 |
Release | 2014-06-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1472810031 |
The Russo-Japanese war saw the first defeat of a major European imperialist power by an Asian country. When Japanese and Russian expansionist interests collided over Manchuria and Korea, the Tsar assumed Japan would never dare to fight. However, after years of planning, Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian Port Arthur, on the Liaoyang Peninsula in 1904 and the war that followed saw Japan win major battles against Russia. This book explains the background and outbreak of the war, then follows the course of the fighting at Yalu River, Sha-ho, and finally Mukden, the largest battle anywhere in the world before the First World War.
Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914
Title | Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | William C. Fuller |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 667 |
Release | 1998-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1439105774 |
“A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty.” —Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard University
Soldiers of the Sun
Title | Soldiers of the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Meirion Harries |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 605 |
Release | 1994-07-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0679753036 |
Soldiers of the Sun traces the origins of the Imperial Japanese Army back to its samurai roots in the nineteenth century to tell the story of the rise and fall of this extraordinary military force. Meirion and Susie Harries have written the first full Western account of the Imperial Japanese Army. Drawing on Japanese, English, French, and American sources, the authors penetrate the lingering wartime enmity and propaganda to lay bare the true character of the Imperial Army.
Kaigun
Title | Kaigun PDF eBook |
Author | David Evans |
Publisher | Naval Institute Press |
Pages | 696 |
Release | 2015-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1612514251 |
One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire stridently confronting, in 1941, the world's most powerful nation. Years of painstaking research and analysis of previously untapped Japanese-language resources have produced this remarkable history of the navy's dizzying development, tactical triumphs, and humiliating defeat. Unrivaled in its breadth of coverage and attention to detail, this important new study explores the foreign and indigenous influences on the navy's thinking about naval warfare and how to plan for it. Focusing primarily on the much-neglected period between the world wars, David C. Evans and Mark R. Peattie, two widely esteemed historians, persuasively explain how the Japanese failed to prepare properly for the war in the Pacific despite an arguable advantage in capability.
Tsushima 1905
Title | Tsushima 1905 PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Lardas |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2018-11-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 147282685X |
Japan was closed to the world until 1854 and its technology then was literally medieval. Great Britain, France and Russia divided the globe in the nineteenth century, but Japan was catching up. Its army and navy were retrained by Western powers and equipped with the latest weapons and ships. Japan wanted to further emulate its European mentors and establish a protectorate over Korea, yet Japanese efforts were blocked by Imperial Russia who had their own designs on the peninsula. The Russo-Japanese War started with a surprise Japanese naval attack against an anchored enemy fleet still believing itself at peace. It ended with the Battle of Tsushima, the most decisive surface naval battle of the 20th century. This gripping study describes this pivotal battle, and shows how the Japanese victory over Russia led to the development of the dreadnought battleship, and gave rise to an almost mythical belief in Japanese naval invincibility.