General Sir Ian Hamilton's Staff Officer's Scrap-Book during the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905

<p>Russia's humiliating defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 had profound effects. Domestically it accelerated revolutionary discontent in Russia and enhanced Japan's national image as a modern state. Internationally it shattered long-standing beliefs in European military dominance; it also marked a significant step on the road to the First World War. For these reasons and others the war has attracted considerable attention from historians.</p><p>As Hamilton was the military attaché of the British Indian Army serving with the Japanese army in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War he was well placed to publish in 1907 this impressive eye witness account to a military confrontation between a well-known European army and a less-familiar Asian army. Good maps (many in colour) a full index and 600+ pages make this facsimile two-volume set a fine reference for the modern scholar of a war that is still the classic example of a conflict waged for purely imperialistic motives a rivalry for the control of Korea and Manchuria and indeed for the mastery of the Far East and China. </p><p><br></p>