Russo-Japanese War 1904–05

Alexei Ivanov was born in 1969 just outside Moscow. He served in the Soviet Armed Forces for four and a half years. He is an avid collector of Russian militaria, and he is especially interested in the Russian Civil War period.Philip Jowett was born in Leeds in 1961, and has always been interested in military history. His first Osprey book was the ground-breaking Men-at-Arms 306: ‘Chinese Civil War Armies 1911–49’; he has since published several others.Andrei Karachtchouk was born in 1966 near Moscow. A well-established artist in Russia, his previous work for Osprey includes two volumes in the Men-at-Arms series on the Russian Civil War.

• IntroductionChronologyMilitary InnovationsThe Russian Army in 1904Russian Army UniformsThe Japanese Army in 1904Japanese Army UniformsThe PlatesIndex

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