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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Piotr OlenderPublisher: Wydawnictwo STRATUS, Artur Juszczak Imprint: Mushroom Model Publications Dimensions: Width: 20.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 30.50cm Weight: 0.839kg ISBN: 9788363678302ISBN 10: 8363678309 Pages: 180 Publication Date: 19 August 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews"""... an account of how Japan came to be the leading Asian power of the early Twentieth Century....opens with four chapters that offer some background on the combatants in the years leading up to the war, discussing the origins of the conflict, and the respective military forces and plans. He then covers the events in Korea that precipitated the hostilities. There follow a series of chapters of varying length that cover the events of the war, setting them within the political developments leading up to China's defeat and the peace process. Having the benefit of the most recent research into the war, Olender often points out problems and outright errors in earlier accounts, particularly those done in the period immediately following the war, often heavily influenced by personal accounts and newspaper stories. This is a good read for anyone interested in the naval and military history of the period, or of the region.""-- ""The NYMAS Review"" Photos, annotations, maps, charts, tables, bibliography, index and transliteration notes season MMP's superb study. Five appendices recap participating vessels, naval artillery, torpedoes, comparative service ranks, and Japanese ship commanders. And a concluding section showcases 1:350 starboard drawings of 36 Chinese and Japanese warships... The brief, bitter Sino-Japanese naval war forged the tactical and technological foundation of Japan's victory over Russia a decade later. ""China,"" the author observes, ""practically became a quasi-colony"" of European imperialists - and entered a half-century of ""internal/social unrest"". Likewise, Japan's expansionist ambitions only ended with its total defeat in World War II - 50 years on.-- ""Cybermodeler""" Photos, annotations, maps, charts, tables, bibliography, index and transliteration notes season MMP's superb study. Five appendices recap participating vessels, naval artillery, torpedoes, comparative service ranks, and Japanese ship commanders. And a concluding section showcases 1:350 starboard drawings of 36 Chinese and Japanese warships... The brief, bitter Sino-Japanese naval war forged the tactical and technological foundation of Japan's victory over Russia a decade later. China, the author observes, practically became a quasi-colony of European imperialists - and entered a half-century of internal/social unrest . Likewise, Japan's expansionist ambitions only ended with its total defeat in World War II - 50 years on.--Cybermodeler ... an account of how Japan came to be the leading Asian power of the early Twentieth Century....opens with four chapters that offer some background on the combatants in the years leading up to the war, discussing the origins of the conflict, and the respective military forces and plans. He then covers the events in Korea that precipitated the hostilities. There follow a series of chapters of varying length that cover the events of the war, setting them within the political developments leading up to China's defeat and the peace process. Having the benefit of the most recent research into the war, Olender often points out problems and outright errors in earlier accounts, particularly those done in the period immediately following the war, often heavily influenced by personal accounts and newspaper stories. This is a good read for anyone interested in the naval and military history of the period, or of the region. --The NYMAS Review ... an account of how Japan came to be the leading Asian power of the early Twentieth Century....opens with four chapters that offer some background on the combatants in the years leading up to the war, discussing the origins of the conflict, and the respective military forces and plans. He then covers the events in Korea that precipitated the hostilities. There follow a series of chapters of varying length that cover the events of the war, setting them within the political developments leading up to China's defeat and the peace process. Having the benefit of the most recent research into the war, Olender often points out problems and outright errors in earlier accounts, particularly those done in the period immediately following the war, often heavily influenced by personal accounts and newspaper stories. This is a good read for anyone interested in the naval and military history of the period, or of the region. --The NYMAS Review Photos, annotations, maps, charts, tables, bibliography, index and transliteration notes season MMP's superb study. Five appendices recap participating vessels, naval artillery, torpedoes, comparative service ranks, and Japanese ship commanders. And a concluding section showcases 1:350 starboard drawings of 36 Chinese and Japanese warships... The brief, bitter Sino-Japanese naval war forged the tactical and technological foundation of Japan's victory over Russia a decade later. China, the author observes, practically became a quasi-colony of European imperialists - and entered a half-century of internal/social unrest . Likewise, Japan's expansionist ambitions only ended with its total defeat in World War II - 50 years on.--Cybermodeler Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |