The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective
Subtitle: World War Zero (History of Warfare, Vol. 29) (History of Warfare)
Contributors: John W. Steinberg (Editor); Bruce W. Menning (Editor); David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye (Editor); David Wolff (Editor); Shinji Yokote (Editor)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: May 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9789004142848
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; c 1900 - c 1914; History - General History; Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905; History; Military; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Japan; Asia - Japan; Military - General
First sentence: The origins of Japan's surprise attack on the Russian Pacific Squadron at Port Arthur in February 1904 can be traced back more than a century before the hostilities that would decide mastery in East Asia erupted.