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The Tsar's Last Armada

The Epic Journey to the Battle of Tsushima
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"A stirring reconstruction of one of history's great--and least known --naval battles...Fascinating stuff. A boon for students of military history and naval warfare. "--Kirkus Reviews (starred review). . On May 14-15, 1905, in the Tsushima Straits near Japan, an entire Russian fleet was annihilated, its ships sunk, scattered, or captured by the Japanese. In the deciding battle of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese lost only three destroyers but the Russians lost twenty-two ships and thousands of sailors. It was the first modern naval battle, employing all the new technology of destruction. The old imperial navy was woefully unprepared. The defeat at Tsushima was the last and greatest of many indignities suffered by the Russian fleet, which had traveled halfway around the world to reach the battle, dogged every mile by bad luck and misadventure. Their legendary admiral, dubbed "Mad Dog," led them on an extraordinary eighteen-thousand-mile journey from the Baltic Sea, around Europe, Africa, and Asia, to the Sea of Japan. They were burdened by the Tsar's incompetent leadership and the old, slow ships that he insisted be included to bulk up the fleet. Moreover, they were under constant fear of attack, and there were no friendly ports to supply coal, food, and fresh water. The level of self-sufficiency attained by this navy was not seen again until the Second World War. The battle of Tsushima is among the top five naval battles in history, equal in scope and drama to those of Lepanto, Trafalgar, Jutland, and Midway, yet despite its importance it has been long neglected in the West. With a novelist's eye and a historian's authority, Constantine Pleshakov tells of the Russian squadron's long, difficult journey and fast, horrible defeat.

Author Biography:

Constantine Pleshakov received his P h.D. from the Soviet Academy of Sciences and was D irector of the Geopolitics Center there until 1995 . He has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanc ed Study in Princeton and a Fellow at the Norwegia n Nobel Institute in Oslo, and since 1998 has been a professor of International Relations at Mount H olyoke College. He is the co-author of Inside the Kremlin's Cold War and Flight of the Romanovs and has published six novels and a collection of short stories in Russia. He lives in Amherst, Massachus etts.
Release date NZ
April 24th, 2003
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
416
Dimensions
129x202x25
ISBN-13
9780465057924
Product ID
2061413

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