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The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Journey to the Battle of Tsushima
Constantine Pleshako
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Description for The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Journey to the Battle of Tsushima
Paperback. A stirring reconstruction of one of history's great--and least known --naval battles.. Fascinating stuff. A boon for students of military history and naval warfare.--Kirkus Reviews (starred review). Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FPJ; 3JJC; HBJD; HBJF; HBLW; HBTM; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 27. Weight in Grams: 471.
On May 14-15, 1905, in the Tsushima Straits near Japan, an entire Russian fleet was annihilated, its ships sunk, scattered, or captured by the Japanese. In the deciding battle of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese lost only three destroyers but the Russians lost twenty-two ships and thousands of sailors. It was the first modern naval battle, employing all the new technology of destruction. The old imperial navy was woefully unprepared. The defeat at Tsushima was the last and greatest of many indignities suffered by the Russian fleet, which had traveled halfway around the world to reach the battle, dogged every ... Read more
On May 14-15, 1905, in the Tsushima Straits near Japan, an entire Russian fleet was annihilated, its ships sunk, scattered, or captured by the Japanese. In the deciding battle of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese lost only three destroyers but the Russians lost twenty-two ships and thousands of sailors. It was the first modern naval battle, employing all the new technology of destruction. The old imperial navy was woefully unprepared. The defeat at Tsushima was the last and greatest of many indignities suffered by the Russian fleet, which had traveled halfway around the world to reach the battle, dogged every ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465057924
SKU
V9780465057924
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About Constantine Pleshako
Constantine Pleshakov received his Ph.D. from the Soviet Academy of Sciences and was Director of the Geopolitics centre there until 1995. He has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, and since 1998 has been a professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke College. He is ... Read more
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