The Voyage of the Damned Russia's Baltic Fleet and the Road to Tsushima
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Erscheinungsdatum
05.02.2026
Seitenzahl
494
Maße (L/B/H)
21,8/13,8/3,2 cm
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598 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798224303014
The Voyage of the Damned: Russia's Baltic Fleet and the Road to Tsushima
The voyage of the Russian Baltic Fleet to its destruction at Tsushima in 1905 represents one of history's most catastrophic military disasters-an eight-month nightmare journey from the Baltic to the Pacific that ended in the most complete naval defeat of the modern era. This comprehensive history examines how Russia's Second Pacific Squadron, dispatched to reverse defeats in the Russo-Japanese War, endured tropical heat, coal shortages, diplomatic crises, and progressive demoralization before being annihilated by Japanese forces in a single afternoon's fighting that destroyed six battleships and killed thousands of sailors.
Drawing on Russian, Japanese, and Western sources, this account explores the strategic delusions that launched the expedition, the logistical impossibilities that doomed it, and the human suffering of sailors subjected to an ordeal that degraded their health, morale, and combat effectiveness. The narrative traces the disaster's profound consequences: catalyzing Russia's 1905 Revolution, reshaping global perceptions of racial hierarchy, inspiring anti-colonial movements throughout Asia, and influencing naval doctrine for decades.
This is the story of everything that can go wrong when imperial ambition confronts reality-a tragedy of institutional dysfunction, strategic incompetence, and the terrible price paid by ordinary men for decisions made by leaders who faced no accountability for failure.
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