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  • Mukden 1905: Russia and Japan's Battle for Manchuria

    Mukden 1905 by Valitutto, John;

    Russia and Japan's Battle for Manchuria

    Series: Campaign;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Osprey Publishing
    • Date of Publication 27 February 2025
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781472864222
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages pages
    • Size 246x182x10 mm
    • Weight 300 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations Colour illustrations throughout, including battlescene artworks, maps, 3D diagrams and photographs.
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    A compelling narrative of the largest land battle of its time, and the decisive engagement of the Russo-Japanese War.

    Mukden stands out as the most significant battle of the Russo-Japanese War. By February 1905, the conflict had reached its culmination, as Port Arthur had fallen to the Japanese after an epic six-month siege. Now free to mass all his field armies, Japanese commander Marshal Oyama shifted his focus to the Russian forces assembled around the city of Mukden. The Russians, led by General Kuropatkin and numbering over 300,000 men, had finally achieved sufficient strength to conduct their own offensive. A Russian victory would be vital to save both deteriorating morale in the army, as well as to reassure the home front.

    This fascinating work documents the decisive set-piece battle between the opposing sides on the plains and hills of Manchuria. Maps, diagrams, battlescene artwork and period photos bring to life the brutal clash, the largest battle in history up to that point. Exploring the unabated fighting across a 90-mile-long front in the depths of winter, John Valitutto considers the effectiveness of each armies' manoeuvres, the trench warfare that prefigured World War I, and the influence of machine guns and massed heavy artillery on the battle's outcome. Mukden made it clear to all that the conduct of war was changing, with new technologies and tactics demonstrating their terrible potential to the world.

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    Table of Contents:

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    Origins of the Campaign
    Chronology
    Opposing Commanders
    Opposing Forces and Orders of Battle
    Opposing Plans
    The Campaign
    Aftermath
    The Battlefield Today
    Bibliography
    Index

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