Under The Dragon Flag

James Allan recounts his misadventures in Northeast Asia during the 1894-95. After gambling away his fortune in Monte Carlo Allan signs up as a sailor and sets out for the seas. He eventually finds himself aboard the freight ship "Columbia" smuggling military cargo to China at the time of the county's ill-fated conflict with the Japanese Empire.

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Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun

The Russo-Japanese War grew out of the rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea. Harry Collingwood provides a personal narrative of this conflict, that served as a prelude for the following two World Wars of the Twentieth Century.

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1904: An Officer's Journal During the Russo-Japanese War

In 1904-1905, Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton was the military representative of the Indian Army serving with the Japanese Army in Manchuria. Among the several military advisors from Western countries, he was the first to arrive in Japan after the start of the war. As the earliest, he would be recognized as the dean of multi-national observers in this conflict.

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