The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905
*Users in the USA and Canada please select your location at the top of this page to see prices in your currency. Users in the UK and the Rest of the World will be billed in UK£
About this book
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.
Contents
Introduction · Chronology · Background to war: Russia's foothold in the Far East · Warring sides: Relative strengths of Russia and Japan · Outbreak : The strike on Port Arthur· The fighting: Russian might and Japanese manoeuvres · Portrait of a soldier : Russia's harsh reality· The world around war: Russian defeats add to domestic unrest · Portrait of a civilian: The impact on neutral China · Conclusion and consequences: Witte woos the US public
Paperback; August 2002; 96 pages; ISBN: 9781841764467