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The short victorious war; the Russo-Japanese conflict, 1904-5.
- Title
- The short victorious war; the Russo-Japanese conflict, 1904-5.
- Author
- Walder, David.
- Publication
- New York, Harper & Row [1974, ©1973]
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- Additional Information at Google Books
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- Description
- 321 pages illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 was a European conflict fought by proxy in Korea, Manchuria, and the South China Sea. Its origins lay in a Europe stalemated by military alliances. The Trans-Siberian Railway gave the traditional rivalry between Russia and Briain yet another dimension. Russia now had access to the Pacific; her imperial presence in Asia threatened established British interests in the Far East. When China leased the ice-free Port Arthur to Russian warships, the two empires seemed set on a collision course. Reluctant to commit herself to so distant a theater of war, Britain took the unprecedented step of allying herself with the growing industrial and military power of Japan. In so doing, she found her "soldier in the East". David Walder recreates a conflict too long neglected. He discovers some striking pointers to the future: the effectiveness of Japan's imitation of Western militarism; Russian military incompetence which provoked Bloody Sunday and the first Russian Revolution; but above all he reveals how the performance of new weapons and the clash of vast armies and powerful battle fleets were monitored by observers from all the major European powers. A decade later, Europe was to suffer from the lessons learned and unlearned.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-314).
- Contents
- The noodles have had a lucid interval -- Gallant little Japs -- An armed clash with Japan would be a great disaster for us -- For Russia has been stricken -- They will not dare, they are unprepared -- What are the hosts whose hearts are cold? -- The Japanese are naturally a military race -- We shall meet in another world -- There will be nothing for me to do in the Far East by September -- Our men never flinched -- Think at every hour of the defence [sic] of Russia's dignity -- There must be a mistake somewhere -- The unwarranted action -- War with England would have been welcomed throughout Russia -- We need not be disturbed about the fate of Port Arthur -- Port Arthur will be my grave -- Serious disorders took place in Petersburg -- It is essential that the enemy be dealt a heavy blow -- Let every man do his utmost duty -- Asia advancing, Europe falling back.
- ISBN
- 0060145161
- 9780060145163
- LCCN
- 74000801
- OCLC
- ocm00803731
- 803731
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries