Las nubes sobre la colina II

In this second volume, Shiba narrates the Russo-Japanese war, which, according to some historians, as Peter Duus recounts, should be called World War Zero: "Strictly speaking, the Japanese went to war to prevent Russia, a power West, dominated Northeast Asia, a possibility that disturbed not only them, but the British and Americans as well. But, more broadly, it was a rehearsal of the many wars that would follow in the twentieth century. it was only the first modern conflict between an Asian country and a Western one, but in it a whole military technology was tested that would later be used in both the First and Second World War ".