The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War (Volume 58) (The A to Z Guide Series, 58) - Softcover

Kowner, Rotem

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810868415 ISBN 13: 9780810868410

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 2009

Synopsis

The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War provides considerable breadth and depth of coverage based on Japanese, Russian, and Western sources. The breadth is accomplished through a wide-ranging introduction, a detailed chronology and an extensive bibliography. The depth comes in the hundreds of entries on military and political leaders, major battles and lesser encounters, tactics and strategy as well as the weaponry and of course the causes and consequences.

About this title

About the Author:

Rotem Kowner serves as the chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Haifa and teaches Japanese modern history and culture. He is one of the leading authorities on the war, has written extensively on the conflict, and also co-organized a major international conference on “The Russo-Japanese War & the 20th Century: An Assessment from a Centennial Perspective.”

Review:

"... as a standard reference, Kowner's dictionary does an admirable job of providing readers with balanced readable reference work on the Russo-Japanese War."   
John W. Steinberg, Journal of Military History 70 (2006), 1149.

"... Kowner provides what must be the most thorough reference account of the Russo-Japanese War produced in the English language.  ... The Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War will be the reference source of choice for any library where the conflict is the subject of study or research. It also belongs in libraries specializing in military history or East Asian or Russian/Slavic studies."
       Tony Chalcraft, Reference Reviews 20, no. 7 (2006), 52.

"Kowner has worked prodigiously over the past decade to mark the conflict's centenary ... and he is therefore well suited to the task."  "... Kowner's dictionary provides balanced and accurate coverage... It is also unfortunate that the dictionary was unavailable 15 years ago, when I began my own research on the topic. It would have saved me a lot of work."            
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Journal of Slavic Military Studies 20 (2007), 775, 776

About this edition

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0810868415
• ISBN 13: 9780810868410
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640