A Staff Officer's Scrap-Book: During the Russo-Japanese War (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Ian Hamilton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331823374 ISBN 13: 9781331823377

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

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Excerpt from A Staff Officer's Scrap-Book: During the Russo-Japanese War

IT is difficult to convey to the peaceable citizens of Greater Britain a true picture of that glorious and impressive survival from heroic times, a nation in arms. The difficulty is enhanced by the fact that military history must be always to some extent misleading.

If facts are hurriedly issued, fresh from the mint of battle, they cannot be expected to supply an account which is either well balanced or exhaustive. On the other hand, it is equally certain that, when once the fight has been fairly lost or won, it is the tendency of all ranks to combine and recast the story of their achievement into a shape which shall satisfy the susceptibilities of national and regimental vain glory. It is then already too late for the painstaking historian to set to work. He may record the orders given and the movements which ensued, and he may build up thereon any ingenious theories which occur to him; but to the hopes and fears which dictated those orders, and to the spirit and method in which those movements were executed, he has for ever lost the clue. On the actual day of battle naked truths may be picked up for the asking; by the following morning they have already begun to get into their uniforms, If the impressions here recorded possess any value, it will be because they do faithfully represent the facts as they appeared to the First Japanese Army while the wounded still lay bleeding upon the stricken field. Further than this they do not profess to go.

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Ian Hamilton has had a range of careers over the span of his life, from journalist to diplomat, but it wasn't until a health scare that he sat down to write his first novel. Ava Lee was the heroine that came to him and so the series was born. Hamilton's journalism has been featured in "Maclean's" and "Saturday Night" "Magazine." He is the author of "The Disciple of Las Vegas", "The Wild Beasts of Wuhan", "The Red Pole of Macau", and "The Water Rat of Wanchai". He lives in Burlington, Ontario, with his wife, Lorraine. He has four children and seven grandchildren.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1331823374
• ISBN 13: 9781331823377
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 463