Samurai Invasion

Author : Stephen R. Turnbull
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780304359486
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samurai Invasion written by Stephen R. Turnbull and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lively....Skillfully pieceing together contemporary accounts from Japanese and Korean sources, the author provides a vivid and horrifying picture of the strategy, tactics, and technology of Japanese warefare....Belongs in public as well as college libraries.”—Library Journal. “Impeccably researched, lavishly illustrated, clearly written for the general reader, as outstanding on its subject as it is unique.”—Booklist.

Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846037581
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Samurai Invasion of Korea 1592–98 written by Stephen Turnbull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Turnbull, a renowned expert on the history of Japan, examines the samurai invasion of Korea, the first step in an ambitious Japanese plan to conquer China. Examining the various stages of the war, from the pitched battles of the early war years, to the great naval encounters, the dramatic sieges and the bitter trench warfare that characterized the end of the war, Turnbull provides a concise analysis of the conflict. Highly illustrated with contemporary photographs, full colour battlescene artwork, detailed maps and bird's-eye views, this is a concise history of a unique and exciting campaign, which not only involved huge numbers of men, differing terrain and tactics but was also the only time that the legendary samurai were pitched against a foreign nation.

Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849082502
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281 written by Stephen Turnbull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his seat in Xanadu, the great Mongol Emperor of China, Kubla Khan, had long plotted an invasion of Japan. However, it was only with the acquisition of Korea, that the Khan gained the maritime resources necessary for such a major amphibious operation. Written by expert Stephen Turnbull, this book tells the story of the two Mongol invasions of Japan against the noble Samurai. Using detailed maps, illustrations, and newly commissioned artwork, Turnbull charts the history of these great campaigns, which included numerous bloody raids on the Japanese islands, and ended with the famous kami kaze, the divine wind, that destroyed the Mongol fleet and would live in the Japanese consciousness and shape their military thinking for centuries to come.

Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780962274
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Samurai Capture a King written by Stephen Turnbull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant but little-known operation, the Shimazu clan raid on the independent kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) in 1609 is one of the most extraordinary episodes in samurai history and the culmination of centuries of rivalry between the two powers. The defeat of the Shimazu at Sekigahara in 1600, and their need to win favour with the new Shogun, led them to hatch an audacious plot to attack the islands on the Shogun's behalf and bring back the king of Ryukyu as a hostage. Stephen Turnbull gives a blow-by-blow account of the operation, from the daring Shimazu amphibious landing, to their rapid advance overland, and the tactical feigned retreat that saw the Shimazu defeat the Okinawan army and kidnap their king in spectacular fashion. With a detailed background and specially commissioned artwork, the scene is set for a dramatic retelling of this fascinating raid.

Author : Stephen R. Turnbull
Publisher : Arms & Armour
ISBN 13 : 9781854094322
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samurai Warfare written by Stephen R. Turnbull and published by Arms & Armour. This book was released on 1997 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at Samurai warfare and specific battles in which it was applied.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russo-Japanese War written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Hawley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992078621
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imjin War written by Samuel Hawley and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May of 1592, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158,800-man army of invasion from Kyushu to Pusan on Korea's southern tip. His objective: to conquer Korea, then China, then the whole of Asia. The resulting seven years of fighting, known in Korea as "imjin waeran," the "Imjin invasion," after the year of the water dragon in which it began, dwarfed contemporary conflicts in Europe and was one of the most devastating wars to grip East Asia in the past thousand years. THE IMJIN WAR is the most comprehensive account ever published in English of this cataclysmic event, so little known in the West. It begins with the political and cultural background of Korea, Japan and China, explores the diplomatic impasse that led to the war, describes every major incident and battle from 1592 to 1598 and introduces a fascinating cast of characters along the way. There is Hideyoshi, hosting garden parties as his armies march toward Beijing; Korean admiral Yi Sun-sin, emerging from a prison cell to take on the Japanese navy with just thirteen ships; Chinese commander Zhao Chengxun, suffering defeat after promising to "scatter the Japanese to the four winds"; the courtesan Chu Non-gae, luring a samurai warrior into her arms and jumping into the Nam River with him locked in her embrace. One nation fighting to expand, another to survive. Shockwaves extending across China and beyond. THE IMJIN WAR is an epic tale of grand perspective and intimate detail of an upheaval that would shape East Asia for centuries to come.

Author : James Martin Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thrilling Stories of the Russian-Japanese War written by James Martin Miller and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Martin Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official History of the Russian-Japanese War written by James Martin Miller and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.9D/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Russo-Japanese War Fully Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: