Read For Free The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 (Guide To...) Conceptualized By Geoffrey Jukes Distributed As Online Book

book provides enough detail for it to not feel like a Spark Notes summary of the RussoJapanese War but in typical Osprey style offers a concise overview of the key whos and whens.
This book provides a nice overview of this conflict which changed the dynamic between European powers and Asian powers and put Japan on the road to being the most confrontational Asian power of the first half of theth Century.
The book focuses a bit more on the army rather than the navy but there is more than enough of the Battle of Tsushima for one to grasp its absolute significance.
The RussoJapanese 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 inand 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, Shaho, and finally Mukden, the largest battle anywhere in the world before the First World War.


The Osprey Guide To, . . series is a reworking of the popular Essential Histories series, now available as nonillustrated eBooks at a fantastic low price,

The maps and text remain the same, giving a strong historical overview of some of the most important conflicts and theatres of war from the ancient world through to modern times.
The subject matter wasn't that interesting, . . but Geoffrey Jukes' conclusions made me realize that this book is important for those wanting to read more on the First World War aka The Great War.
Jukes discussed the war why it

happened and the events leading up to the war, . . the battles the political and military leaders involved, . . the mutinies and why they happened, For an Osprey/Essential Histories book it did what it set out to do: summarize the war in less thanpages, It had the maps and the photos, . . the strategies of the generals and whether they were successful or not,

What I really liked about this book was the impact the war had on the military strategy and thinking of the First World War.
The military observers from the major powers who accompanied both belligerents arrived to conclusions fatal for hundreds of thousands of soldiers ten years later.
To them Japan won the war because they had the right attitude and the better spirit, Attack! Attack! Attack! With that kind of attitude you'll beat everyone, Unfortunately, there's a little more to it than that especially when you send a company of men into a full frontal attack and they have barbed wire, trenches and machine guns obstructing their charge up the hill.
. . or across the field. "You failed That's because you had the wrong attitude, You need to try harder, you need more discipline. Meanwhile, we'll use more cavalry to outflank our enemies, " That works when your enemies have thin lines, . . but when your enemies are heavily concentrated everywhere as they were in the western front ten years later then that strategy doesn't work also.


This war led to overconfidence of the generals, . and the slaughter of the common soldier, Unfortunately, businesses today use the same strategy, You're company is not doing so well Your workers are failing at their tasks "Why it's their attitude, They lack discipline! They need to go out there and attack! Attack! Attack!" So as with all Osprey books, it has a limited amount of coverage of the actual events, but this one is much better than most.
So much so that while I was reading it, I looked up the author and found that I had read a number of books by him, mostly from the original Ballantine World in Conflict series.
And they were books that I remember being impressed with, For a quick overview of this early introduction of the Japanese on the world stage, this is a great book for that,

Still limited by the format so no better than a three, Typical war book, plenty of information about the conflict between Russia and Japan, details about issues and problems faced, well detailed book, would be useful for students of History at College or University.
Or just for people interested in Military history, I like it, did not know allot about this conflict until I read the book, well written, easy to read, the story format was clear and not complicated, no editorial errors.
Good war book. Compendio molto dettagliato della guerra russogiapponese del/, L'autore cura particolarmente il lato militarestrategico ma considerazioni politicosociali non sono estranee, L'evento di per sé é parecchio interessante visto che, per certi versi, puó essere considerata come la prima guerra moderna, in particolare dal punto di vista navale per la prima volta tutti i vascelli coinvolti erano di metallo.
Affascina un certo spiritualismo giapponese che sará la base del nazionalismo propellente della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, mentre le azioni della controparte russa spiegano abbastanza bene perché la societá zarista russa fosse in declino.
Una lettura interessante che é servita a colmare la mia pressoché totale ignoranza di uno dei conflitti piú importanti del XX secolo, Very good and concise account of at some see as a forgotten war of the earlyth century, An excellent book on a relatively little known subject, I would highly recommend this due to the maps, good writing and coverage of an interesting war, As is fairly typical with Osprey publications this is a short introduction and overview of the RussoJapanese War of, The book addresses a broad range of subjects from the global tensions leading to the war, both the land and sea campaigns, a bit about each countries' military and the political fallout of the war.


Overall I felt it was worth the read to obtain an overview of the execution of the war and surrounding events, The review of the land campaign was very terse and in places difficult to follow due to the lack of description of some events.
This was the case with the recounting of the naval movements, but not to the same extent,

Recommended to anyone interested in a brief overview, or as a prelude to diving into the subject in greater depth, At the turn of theth Century the Japanese were concerned about the ownership of Port Arthur in China by Russia, and launched an initally undeclared war.
It was unlikely Russia were going to attack Japan and so Japan required diplomatic skill to keep the support of the UK, and USA.


Wars in the Far East are rarely known about or talked about outside academic or wargaming circles, but Jukes manages to clearly and concisely explain the major movements, and battles of this short war which could have been seen as a precursor to the First World War, and certainly didn't help the Tsar with his troubles at home.


The Japanese did remarkably well at sea, but whilst being victorious on land did lose many soldiers in attempts to take Port Athur.
As often with this series, the brief review of the end of the conlict, and it's impact on the countries involved and those further afield is as interesting as the main book itself.
Good overview of a war that had consequences for both Russia and Japan, I had previously read a book about Tsushima so I was aware of many of the problems faced by the Russians, but this book added to my knowledge about the land fighting as well.
I really appreciate the fine maps that are included, So many books ignore these vital assets to their stories, I bought this book online being under the impression that it was a book as opposed to a Cliff Notes version of the RussoJapanese War so I was kind of disappointed when it arrived in the mail.
It was better than nothing, but it provides the briefest of overviews of the war, This is essentially a lengthy magszine article, This has numerous editing errors and is sometimes inaccurate, but is overall not the worst thing I've seen Very much what it says, an essential history.
Quite a decent overview of the broad facts, happenings and people along with a good set of maps, Great introduction book A former civil servant and scholar in international relations, Geoffrey Jukes spentyears in the UK Ministry of Defence and Foreign and Colonial Office, specialising in Russian/Soviet military history, strategy and arms control.
He was a Senior Fellow in International Relations at ANU fromto, and an Associate of the Centre for Arab Islamic Studies the Middle East Central Asia until his death in.
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