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(0)David Walder
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"Mackey's book demonstrates that the failure of the shadow war can be traced both to poor Confederate command, which allowed irregulars to prey on their own neighbors, and to effective Union countermeasures. As a result, by 1865, the Confederacy had collapsed on both conventional and unconventional fields of conflict."--Jacket.
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The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 was a European conflict fought by proxy in Korea, Manchuria, and the South China Sea. Its origins lay in a Europe stalemated by military alliances. The Trans-Siberian Railway gave the traditional rivalry between Russia and Briain yet another dimension. Russia now had access to the Pacific; her imperial presence in Asia threatened established British interests in the Far East. When China leased the ice-free Port Arthur...