The Japanese Siege of Tsingtau
Author | : Charles Burton Burdick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles Burton Burdick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Stephenson |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2017-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526702940 |
“A well-written, modern narrative of the political and military events leading up to, during and after the German-Japanese War of 1914.”—The Australian Naval Institute The German-Japanese War was a key, yet often neglected, episode in the opening phase of the First World War. It had profound implications for the future, particularly in respect of Japan’s acquisition of Germany’s Micronesian islands. Japan’s naval perimeter was extended and threatened the United States naval strategy of projecting force westward. The campaign to relieve Germany of Tsingtau, the port and naval base in China, and its hinterland posed a grave threat to Chinese independence. The course of the Second World War in China and the Pacific cannot be explained without reference to these events. Charles Stephenson’s account makes fascinating reading. The siege of Tsingtau by the Japanese, with token British participation, forms the core of his story. He draws on Japanese and German primary sources to describe the defenses, the landings, the course of the siege, and eventual German surrender. His study will be absorbing reading for anyone interested in the campaigns of the First World War outside of Europe, in German colonial expansion and the rise to power of Japan. “Overall the volume delivers a much needed, interesting and often highly detailed overview of operations in the Pacific and the siege of Tsingtau. The volume excels especially in its detailed narrative of naval and land operations in the Pacific and in China. The geopolitical background provides a most useful introduction to the history of the region.”—International Journal of Maritime History
Author | : Jefferson Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Eastern question (Far East). |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jonathan Fenby |
Publisher | : Penguin Group Australia |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 2014-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0143800124 |
In 1914, Europe was not the only continent coming to terms with a new form of conflict. Through a mix of complex alliances and global ambition, the war had spread to northern China, where the German-held port of Tsingtao became a key battleground. To strike a blow at Kaiser Wilhelm's naval forces, Britain and its ally Japan lay siege to the port during October and November. In The Siege of Tsingtao, the first of the Penguin China Specials on the First World War, celebrated historian Jonathan Fenby examines the causes of the battle, the ulterior motives for it, and the path it helped set East Asia on for decades to come.
Author | : Houghton Mifflin Company |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781021098481 |
Uncover the fascinating history of the siege of Tsingtau and the larger forces at work in East Asia during World War I with this compelling and insightful book. Author anonymousprofiles the key players, the major battles, and the lasting legacy of this pivotal moment in modern Asian history. Filled with thrilling action and rich with historical detail, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the complex and dynamic relationship between Japan, China, and the West. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Charles Stephenson |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2021-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526785951 |
This WWII military study examines the critical yet overlooked Soviet offensive on Japan’s puppet state and its influence on winning the Pacific War. Did Japan surrender in 1945 because the Americans dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Or because of the crushing defeat inflicted by the Soviet Union in Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in north-east China? In Stalin’s War on Japan, Charles Stephenson describes the Soviet offensive from the top-level decision-making and early planning stages to its decisive outcome on the ground. He also considers to what extent Japan’s capitulation is attributable to the atomic bomb or the stunningly successful entry of the Soviet Union into the conflict. Stephenson combines a vividly detailed narrative of the invasion itself with an absorbing account of the political and diplomatic process that gave rise to the offensive—with particular focus on the Yalta conference. There, Stalin allowed the Americans to persuade him to join the war in the east; a conflict he was determined on entering anyway. Stalin’s War on Japan sheds new light on the last act of the Second World War.
Author | : Jefferson Jones |
Publisher | : Trieste Publishing |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2017-07-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780649003235 |
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Author | : Charles Stephenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
An overview of Germany's naval and imperial activities in East Asia and the Pacific in the years leading up to the First World War.
Author | : Stuart Goldman |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612510981 |
Stuart Goldman convincingly argues that a little-known, but intense Soviet-Japanese conflict along the Manchurian-Mongolian frontier at Nomonhan influenced the outbreak of World War II and shaped the course of the war. The author draws on Japanese, Soviet, and western sources to put the seemingly obscure conflict—actually a small undeclared war— into its proper global geo-strategic perspective. The book describes how the Soviets, in response to a border conflict provoked by Japan, launched an offensive in August 1939 that wiped out the Japanese forces at Nomonhan. At the same time, Stalin signed the German—Soviet Nonaggression Pact, allowing Hitler to invade Poland. The timing of these military and diplomatic strikes was not coincidental, according to the author. In forming an alliance with Hitler that left Tokyo diplomatically isolated, Stalin succeeded in avoiding a two-front war. He saw the pact with the Nazis as a way to pit Germany against Britain and France, leaving the Soviet Union on the sidelines to eventually pick up the spoils from the European conflict, while at the same time giving him a free hand to smash the Japanese at Nomonhan. Goldman not only demonstrates the linkage between the Nomonhan conflict, the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, and the outbreak of World War II , but also shows how Nomonhan influenced Japan’s decision to go to war with the United States and thus change the course of history. The book details Gen. Georgy Zhukov’s brilliant victory at Nomonhan that led to his command of the Red Army in 1941 and his success in stopping the Germans at Moscow with reinforcements from the Soviet Far East. Such a strategy was possible, the author contends, only because of Japan’s decision not to attack the Soviet Far East but to seize the oil-rich Dutch East Indies and attack Pearl Harbor instead. Goldman credits Tsuji Masanobu, an influential Japanese officer who instigated the Nomonhan conflict and survived the debacle, with urging his superiors not to take on the Soviets again in 1941, but instead to go to war with the United States.
Author | : Edwin Palmer Hoyt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |