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Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun

Collingwood

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ur we steamed on, describing the arc of a big semi-circle as we altered our course from time to time, until at length we were heading west-nor’-west for Port Arthur; and during the whole time we had not sighted a craft of any description.

At length, about half-past ten, the darkness ahead seemed to grow blacker than ever, and turning to Ito, who stood beside me on the bridge, I said:

“Do you see that darkness ahead, Ito? Surely that is the loom of land.”

“Yes,” answered Ito, who spoke English excellently. “Without a doubt that is the high land on either side of Port Arthur; and—ha! there is the Pinnacle Rock light, straight ahead. By Jingo! as the honourable English say, Captain Matsunaga has ‘hit it off splendidly.’ And see there,”—as a light began to wink at us from the bridge of the Asashio ahead—“there is the signal for the 4th and 5th Divisions to part company. Yes; there they go;. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Great historical context

I liked it. I had read about the Russo-Japanese war, but the details were not as thorough as this book !

A book with good battle descriptions

So this book was actually a pretty exciting book to read, because it had some very well written battle scenes that seemed to really bring you into the intensity of battle. This is definitely a dated book, and you can tell it was written before world war two, as t