THE SHORT VICTORIOUS WAR: THE RUSSO-JAPANESE CONFLICT 1904-5

by Walder, David

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Book description: Readers Union, Newton Abbot, 1974, book club edition.. 321 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, maps. "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 Britain yet another dimension. Russia now had access to the Pacific; her imperial presence in Asia threatened established British interests in the Far East. Whe. n 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 theatre of war, Britain took the unprecedented step of allying herself with the growing indu. s t rial and military power of Japan. In so doing, she found her 'soldier in the East'. David Walder recreates a conflict too long neglected, save for the Dogger Bank crisis and the voyage of the Baltic Fleet. He discovers some striking pointers . to t he 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 . vas t a rmies 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." Light browning to pages and edges of textblock, small soft corne. r cr ease on free rear endpaper, very small bump to top of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling - mainly at top/bottom of spine, light browning, two tiny closed tears, tiny color imperfection on front panel, minor soiling. Very Good/G. ood+.

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