The War of the Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear
Author : Richard M. Connaughton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
ISBN : 9780415071437
Rising Sun And Tumbling Bear
Author : Richard Connaughton
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1474616801
Book Description
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.
Rising Sun And Tumbling Bear
Author : Richard Connaughton
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1474616801
Book Description
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
Author : Geoffrey Jukes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1472810031
Book Description
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.
The Tide at Sunrise
Author : Denis Warner
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
ISBN : 0714682349
Book Description
The Russo-Japanese War was fought in the waters of the Yellow Sea and the Straits of Tsushima that divide Japan from Korea, and in the mountains of Manchuria, borrowed without permission from China. It was the first war to be fought with modern weapons. The Japanese had fought the Chinese at sea in 1894 and had gained a foothold in Manchuria by taking control of Port Authur. In 1895, however, Japan was forced to abandon its claims by the Russian fleet's presence in the Straits of Tsushima. Tsar Nicholas had obtained a window to the East for his empire and Japan had been humiliated. Tensions between the two countries would rise inexorably over the next decade. Around the world, no one doubted that little Japan would be no match for the mighty armies of Tsar Nicholas II. Yet Russia was in an advanced state of decay, the government corrupt and its troops inept and demoralized. Japan, meanwhile, was emerging from centuries of feudal isolation and becoming an industrial power, led by zealous nationalist warlords keen to lead the Orient to victory over the oppressive West. From the opening surprise attack on the Russian fleet at Port Authur in 1904, the Japanese out-fought and out-thought the Russians. This is a definitive account of one of the pivotal conflicts of the twentieth century whose impact was felt around the world.
Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914
Author : William C. Fuller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1439105774
Book Description
“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
Kaigun
Author : David Evans
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1612514251
Book Description
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.
Counter Jihad
Author : Brian Glyn Williams
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0812248678
Book Description
Counter Jihad provides a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world and fills a gaping void in our understanding of the War on Terror.
Human Bullets
Author : Tadayoshi Sakurai
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Lüshun (China)
ISBN :
Book Description
Acid West
Author : Joshua Wheeler
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374714150
Book Description
A rollicking debut book of essays that takes readers on a trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country’s underbelly Early on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler’s great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world’s first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Out on the range, the cattle had been bleached white by the fallout. Acid West, Wheeler’s stunning debut collection of essays, is full of these mutated cows: vestiges of the Old West that have been transformed, suddenly and irrevocably, by innovation. Traversing the New Mexico landscape his family has called home for seven generations, Wheeler excavates and reexamines these oddities, assembling a cabinet of narrative curiosities: a man who steps from the stratosphere and free-falls to the desert; a treasure hunt for buried Atari video games; a village plagued by the legacy of atomic testing; a showdown between Billy the Kid and the author of Ben-Hur; a UFO festival during the paranoid Summer of Snowden. The radical evolution of American identity, from cowboys to drone warriors to space explorers, is a story rooted in southern New Mexico. Acid West illuminates this history, clawing at the bounds of genre to reveal a place that is, for better or worse, home. By turns intimate, absurd, and frightening, Acid West is an enlightening deep-dive into a prophetic desert at the bottom of America.
