World War Zero - The Russo Japanese War 1904-1905 (Documentary)

Watch Rhineland 45 on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/real-time-history-1-come-hell-or-high-water-i-rhineland-45 - where you can also watch all our content ad-free The Russo-Japanese War is nicknamed World War Zero - it was a clash between two world powers that foreshadowed war on an industrial scale as seen just 10 years later again. Gigantic land battles like the Battle of Mukden showed the true cost in manpower and materiel when modern armies clashed and the naval side of the war showed the strategic importance of modern navies. » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegreatwar Nebula: https://nebula.tv/the-great-war » THANKS TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS John Ozment, James Darcangelo, Jacob Carter Landt, Thomas Brendan, Kurt Gillies, Scott Deederly, John Belland, Adam Smith, Taylor Allen, Rustem Sharipov, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Marcus Bondura, Ramon Rijkhoek, Theodore Patrick Shannon, Philip Schoffman, Avi Woolf, » BIBLIOGRAPHY Akiyama Saneyuki, Gundan (Tokyo : Jitsugyō no Nihonsha, 1917) Atsuo Yokoyama; Toshikatsu Nishikawa & Ichō Konsōshiamu, Heishitachi ga mita Nichi-Ro sensō, (Tokyo : Yūzankaku, 2012) Corbett, Julian S. Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, Volume I, (Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, 2015) Corbett, Julian S. Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, Volume II, (Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, 2015) Деникин А. И. Путь русского офицера. (Нью-Йорк: Изд. им. А. Чехова, 1953) Forczyk, Robert, Russian Battleship vs Japanese Battleship: Yellow Sea 1904-05, (Oxford : Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2009) Hamby, Joel E, “Striking the Balance: Strategy and Force in the Russo-Japanese War” Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 30, No. 3 (2004) Hosokawa Gentarō, Byōinsen Kōsai Maru kenbunroku (Tokyo : Hakubunkan Shinsha, 1993) Ivanov, A & Jowett P, The Russo-Japanese War 1904-05, (Oxford : Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2004) Jacob, Frank, The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century, (London : Routledge, 2017) Jukes, Geoffrey, The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, (Oxford : Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2014) Kowner, Rotem (ed), Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5, Volume 1: Centennial Perspectives, (Folkestone : Global Oriental, 2007) Lynch, George & Palmer, Frederick, In Many Wars By Many War Correspondnets, (Tokyo : Tokyo Printing Co. 1904) Mozawa Yusaku, Aru hohei no Nichi-Ro Sensō jūgun nikki (Tokyo : Sōshisha, 2005) Murakami Hyōe, Konoe Rentai ki (Tokyo : Akita Shoten, 1967) Paine, S. C. M. The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War, (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017) Steinberg, John W; Meaning, Bruce W; Schimmelpennick van der Oye, David; Wolff, David & Yokote, Shinji (eds.), The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero, (Leiden : Brill, 2005) Stille, Mark, The Imperial Japanese Navy of the Russo-Japanese War, (Oxford : Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2016) Takagi Suiu, Jinsei hachimenkan (Tokyo : Teikoku Kyōiku Kenkyūkai, 1927) van Dijk, Kees, Pacific Strife: The Great Powers and Their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914, (Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2015) Warner, Denis & Warner, Peggy, The Tide at Sunrise: A History of the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, (London : Angus & Robertson, 1974) » OUR SISTER CHANNEL https://youtube.com/realtimehistory »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Toni Steller Editing: Jose Gamez Motion Design: Elise Heersink, Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Research by: Jesse Alexander Fact checking: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Yves Thimian Contains licensed material by getty images Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2022