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This fully illustrated study tells the story the fighting men of the Russo-Japanese War and how these two empires clashed, heralding a new phase in modern warfare as World War I loomed on the horizon.

At the turn of the 20th century, the region of Manchuria sat atop a potentially catastrophic political fault line; the ancient strength of China was crumbling, leaving opportunities for both Russia and Japan to claw out new territories from the edges of that dying empire. Russian pride would contend with Japanese ambition in a conflict that ushered in the age of massed armies fighting on battlefields that were being redefined by the new tools of war such as newer, larger artillery pieces, and the use of machine guns in pitched battles. The vast, but over-stretched Russian Army was expected to steamroller its far smaller opponent, but the aggressiveness and zeal of the more modern Japanese military confounded expectations.

DAVID CAMPBELL is senior lecturer in accounting and business ethics at Newcastle University Business School, UK. He is examiner for the ACCA professional paper P1 and is an external examiner at the University of Northampton and at the UHI Millennium Institure in Inverness. David is on the editorial boards of 'Accounting Forum' and 'Business Ethics: A European Review'.