The Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria was the first 20th century conflict fought between the regular armies of major powers, employing the most modern means - machine guns, trench warfare, minefields and telephone communications; and the battle of Mukden in March 1905 was the largest clash of armies in world history up to that date. Events were followed by many foreign observers; but the events of 1914 in Western Europe suggest that not all of them drew the correct conclusions. For the first time in the West the armies of this distant but important war are described and illustrated in detail, with rare photos and the superbly atmospheric paintings of Russia's leading military illustrator.
The Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria was the first 20th century conflict fought between the regular armies of major powers, employing the most modern means - machine guns, trench warfare, minefields and telephone communications; and the battle of Mukden in March 1905 was the largest clash of armies in world history up to that date. Events were followed by many foreign observers; but the events of 1914 in Western Europe suggest that not all of them drew the correct conclusions. For the first time in the West the armies of this distant but important war are described and illustrated in detail, with rare photos and the superbly atmospheric paintings of Russia's leading military illustrator.
Introduction · Chronology · Military Innovations · The Russian Army in 1904 · Russian Army Uniforms · The Japanese Army in 1904 · Japanese Army Uniforms · The Plates · Index
Alexei Ivanov was born in 1969 just outside Moscow. He served in
the Soviet Armed Forces for four and a half years. He is an avid
collector of Russian militaria, and he is especially interested in
the Russian Civil War period. He divides his time between Russia
and his home in Cambridgeshire. Philip Jowett was born in Leeds in
1961, and has always been interested in military history. His first
Osprey book was the ground-breaking Men-at-Arms 306: ‘Chinese Civil
War Armies 1911–49’; he has since published a three-part sequence
on The Italian Army 1940-45 (Men-at-Arms 340, 349 & 353). A rugby
league enthusiast and amateur genealogist, he is married and lives
in Leeds.
Andrei Karachtchouk was born in 1966 near Moscow. A
well-established artist in Russia, his previous work for Osprey
includes two volumes in the Men-at-Arms series on the Russian Civil
War. Andrei is an active re-enactor and sculptor who, among other
things, makes master-models for the UK based 'Anglo-Russian Toy
Soldier' Company.
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