Free Download Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear: Russia’s War With Japan by Richard Connaughton
English | January 1, 2003 | ISBN: 0304361844 | 462 pages | PDF | 8.47 Mb
Manchuria, 1904-1905, and in their war with the Japanese the Russians were wrong footed from the start, fighting at the end of a 5,000 mile single track railway against a brilliantly led and fanatical Japanese army less than a week 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. Seventeen months of war left 300,000 dead, a major European power defeated by the Japanese and the beginnings of a new order in the Far East. The world was changed – as the unsuspecting world would later discover.
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