Clouds above the Hill: A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 4【並行輸入品】

■全国送料無料■並行輸入品のため、海外からのお取り寄せとなり、配送まで10-20日ほどのお時間を頂いておりますが、迅速配達を心掛けお届けいたします。■詳しい納期は、事前にお問い合わせいただくか、ご購入後にお知らせいたします。■関税につきまして、お客様の負担は一切ございませんのでご安心ください。■海外からの輸送により外箱に若干のいたみ等が出る場合がございますが、商品自体には問題はございません。■税関にて内容確認のため開封される場合がございますが、商品に影響が出るような事はございませんのでご安心くださいませ。Clouds above the Hill is the best-selling novel ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Best-selling author Shiba Ry?tar? devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features Japan"s emerging onto the world stage by the early years of the 20th century.Volume IV begins with the dramatic battle of Mukden where Akiyama Yoshifuru’s cavalry play a major part in the action against the Cossacks. Meanwhile, Admiral T?g?’s fleet sail to the Tsushima strait to intercept the Baltic Fleet en route to Vladivostok. With the help of Akiyama Saneyuki’s strategies, the Baltic Fleet is totally destroyed and the Japanese fleet make a triumphant return to Yokohama.Anyone curious as to how the "tiny, rising nation of Japan" was able to fight so fiercely for its survival should look no further. Clouds above the Hill is an exciting, human portrait of a modernizing nation that goes to war and thereby stakes its very existence on a desperate bid for glory in East Asia.