Product 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #145051 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

About the Author
After leaving Oxford in 1953 Geoffrey Jukes spent 14 years in the UK Ministry of Defence and Foreign and Colonial Office, specialising in Russian/Soviet military history, strategy and arms control. From 1967 to 1993 he was also on the staff of the Australian National University. He has written five books and numerous articles on the Eastern Front in the two World Wars.

Customer Reviews

Russo-Japanese war
This book was very well recieved as i had been scouring the bookshelves of shops for months to find an interesting and comprehensive history of this war. it is very well written and includes all information neccessary- and much more. it ranges from the origins of the conflict right through to the aftermath and consequences. it also gives detailed acounts and contentent of the soldiers equipment, biographies of important figuers and fantasticly detailed maps helping to add another dimesnion to the book. it is very interesting to read and i was very pleasantly surprised by it. this book gets my full, undivided backing and is a must buy for history enthusiasts of all genres and earas.

Good, but you can find better
This is not at all a bad book; generally very readable, clear and covering the key points and the development of the war, this volume is clearly recommendable for those interested in a general overview of this conflict to an intermidiate level.
Used in conjunction with parts of Nish's other volume "The Anglo-Japanese Alliance" and with Ute Mehnert's "Deutschland, Amerika und die Gelbe Gefahr", you can form a very detailed picture of the conflict, the issues at stake and the large contextual frame involving all the major powers, gaining from greater precision and much wider perspective than you can obtain from this book alone. And, of course, if you can't read German, well, though; go and learn it! There is a (scholarly) world beyond the borders of the anglophone states, so get used to resistance to Anglo-saxon cultural imperialism!