Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear
Title | Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Michael Connaughton |
Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780304361847 |
The Russians were wrong footed from the start, fighting in Manchuria at the end of a 5000 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 narrative to appeal to readers at all levels.
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 War of the Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear
Title | The War of the Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Michael Connaughton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 |
ISBN | 9780415009065 |
Describes the first defeat of a European power by an Asian power since the thirteenth-century invasion of the Mongols ... providing lessons for the West, which were largely ignored by military minds of the day.
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.
War Made New
Title | War Made New PDF eBook |
Author | Max Boot |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781592402229 |
An analysis of the pivotal role of technology in modern warfare focuses on four historical periods that shaped the rise and fall of empires, in a narrative account that covers such topics as gunpowder, the Industrial Revolution, and stealth aircraft. First serial, American Heritage.
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
Warriors of the Rising Sun
Title | Warriors of the Rising Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Robert B. Edgerton |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780393040852 |
Throughout the Pacific theater of World War II, Allied prisoners were often starved, tortured, beheaded, even cannibalized by Japanese soldiers. Yet, during the Boxer Rebellion in China and the savage Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, the Western press lauded the Japanese for their kindness to the enemy wounded and imprisoned. "Warriors of the Rising Sun" chronicles the Japanese military's transformation from honorable "knights of Bushido" into men of historic cruelty. Photos.