Brown of Moukden: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War

Brown of Moukden - A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang. My dear Raymond. Last year I wove a romance about the early incidents of the great war now happily at an end; this year I have chosen its later incidents as the background for my hero's adventures. But while in Kobo the struggle was viewed from the Japanese stand-point in Brown of Moukden (which is in no sense a sequel) you will find yourself among the Russians looking at the other side of the shield. It is not the romancer's business to be a partisan; and we British people were at first perhaps a little blind to the fact that the bravery the endurance the heroism have not been all on the one side.. As a boy preparing for the Navy you would have liked I dare say to see Jack Brown in the thick of the great naval battle at Tsushima. But I had three reasons for giving no space to that famous victory. First Jack could not possibly have seen it. Secondly sea-fights had a very good turn in Kobo. Thirdly I hope some day to give you sea-dogs a whole book to yourselves—but that as Mr. Kipling somewhere says will be another story. Meanwhile if you get half as much fun in reading this book as I have had in writing it I shall count myself very lucky indeed.