num_pages: 96
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.
language: English
title: The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905
titlecomplete: The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905
characters: Tōgō Heihachirō
genres: Russian History, Russia, Japanese History, European History, Military Fiction, Japan, War, Nonfiction, History, Military History
ratings_count: 160
series: Osprey Essential Histories
publisher: Osprey Publishing