The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905
The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905

Author: Geoffrey Jukes

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-06-06

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 1472810031

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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. 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 Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective
The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective

Author: John Steinberg

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006-12-01

Total Pages: 631

ISBN-13: 9047411129

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Like Volume one, Volume two of The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, and cultural context. In this volume East Asian contributors focus on the Asian side of the war to flesh out the assertion that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global confl ict of the 20th century. The contributors demonstrate that the Russo-Japanese War, largely forgotten in the aftermath of World War I, actually was a precursor to the catastrophe that engulfed the world less than a decade after the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth. This study also helps us better understand Japan as it emerged at the beginning of its fateful 20th century.

The Japanese Empire
The Japanese Empire

Author: S. C. M. Paine

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-03-06

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1107011957

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An accessible, analytical survey of the rise and fall of Imperial Japan in the context of its grand strategy to transform itself into a great power.

The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War
The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War

Author: Rotem Kowner

Publisher: A to Z Guide Series

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780810868410

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The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War provides considerable breadth and depth of coverage based on Japanese, Russian, and Western sources. The breadth is accomplished through a wide-ranging introduction, a detailed chronology and an extensive bibliography. The depth comes in the hundreds of entries on military and political leaders, major battles and lesser encounters, tactics and strategy as well as the weaponry and of course the causes and consequences.

Tsushima 1905
Tsushima 1905

Author: Mark Lardas

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-11-29

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 147282685X

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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.