Sheila Miyoshi Jager

Winner of the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History, this dramatic new account of the dawn of modern East Asia places Korea at the centre of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars. In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games." One, well known, pitted the tsar's empire against Britain in Central Asia....

A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the centre of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars. In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games": one, well known, pitted the tsar's empire against Britain in Central Asia. The other, hitherto unrecognised but no less significant, saw Russia,...