Author : Richard Hough
Release : 2000
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Fleet that Had to Die by : Richard Hough
Download or read book The Fleet that Had to Die written by Richard Hough. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Richard Hough recounts the fleet's extraordinary seven-month journey from the Baltic to the Far East, which eventually became a mission of heroic futility when Port Arthur, and with it the entire Russian Pacific Fleet, fell. As Admiral Rozhestvensky's fleet lumbered through the Straits of Tsushima towards Vladivostok on 27 May 1905, the Japanese, in one of the most crushing naval victories of all time, utterly destroyed the Russian armada. The humiliating and total defeat of Russia was confirmed, giving rise to a new and dynamic superpower in the East."--BOOK JACKET.