By Felix Patrikeeff
This publication explores the nexus among railways and the Russo-Japanese warfare (1904-05) - the 1st sleek conflict, and one within which the railways performed a key part.
Felix Patrikeeff and Harry Shukman learn a few of the key dimensions of the Russo-Japanese conflict, so much particularly how uncomfortably technological and human dimensions of Russia’s warfare attempt interleaved throughout the clash. They show how merits that may were outfitted upon have been squandered, blunt conventional kinds and conduct have been utilized in politically tortuous contexts, and technological area negated via the inner turmoil of a rustic not able to tame a strategy of modernization.
Illustrating the very important function railways performed within the Russo-Japanese warfare, normally thought of to be the 1st sleek, technological clash and a precursor to the 1st global warfare, Railways and the Russo-Japanese War will attract scholars of the Russo-Japanese battle, Russian historical past, army heritage and overseas historical past in general.
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