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The Russo-Japanese War 1904â"1905 : Essential Histories - Geoffrey Jukes

The Russo-Japanese War 1904â"1905

By: Geoffrey Jukes

Paperback | 19 August 2002

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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.

Compact and illustrated throughout, 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.
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"I am most favorably impressed by the Essential Histories series on the American Civil War. Written by four of the best historians of the military course of the war, these volumes provide a lucid and concise narrative of the campaigns in both the Eastern and Western theaters as well as penetrating analyses of strategies and leadership. Ideal for classroom use or fireside reading."

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