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The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero (History of Warfare, Vol. 29) (History of Warfare)
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About the Author
John W. Steinberg is Associate Professor of History at Georgia Southern University. His book on the education, training, and performance of the Imperial Russian General Staff, 1898-1914 is forthcoming.
Bruce W. Menning is a professor of strategy at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. A specialist in modern Russian military history, he is the author of Bayonets before Bullets: The Imperial Russian Army, 1861-1914.
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye is Associate Professor of Russian and East Asian History at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada. He, together with Bruce Menning, edited Reforming the Tsar’s Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution.
David Wolf is Senior Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, specializing in Northeast Asian political and diplomatic history. He has held appointments at Princeton and Berkeley. He is the author of To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914.
Yokote Shinji is Professor of Russian History and Politics at Keio University. He is most recently author of Higashi Ajia no Roshia (Russia in East Asia).
25/01/2007
The collection of essays on this somewhat esoteric conflict are outstanding and cover a wide range of insights, from the diplomatic to the military as well as economic. This war was the first that saw a major European power defeated Asian rulers.
The essay authors also do a good job in balancing the perspectives that others had of the war, and highlight how Europeans, so eager to brand the Japanese as barbarians before the war, eagerly embraced them as fellow defenders of civilization once they had demonstrated their competence with military violence.
All in all, for any fan of this obscure war or early 20th century geopolitics, a must have. It is pricey, even for a scholarly book, but it is a good looking tome with something for everybody.
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