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 Ryotaro 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 Togo'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.
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