A British war correspondent who marched with General Kuroki from the Yalu to the Sha-ho, and who stood at the final assaults and surrender of Port Arthur, sets down what he saw of the war between Russia and Japan. He explains the war’s origins, how the Japanese studied the Russian army, the landing in Korea, the bridging of the Yalu and the hard fighting that followed.
A close, well-informed observer’s account of the war that first showed a modern Asian army defeating a European power. Download the free EPUB.