Despite his weak-minded and annoying Anti-Semitism, McCullagh is an excellent writer. His prose is a pleasure to read, not to mention the fact that he was witness to a vanished people (the Cossacks) waging a mode of warfare that was practically obsolete at the time of the Russo-Japanese War.
His observations of the Cossacks are fascinating- as well as the millions of other little details in this piece of reportage.
The reason why I would include it in a "maritime" bookshelf, is that during much of the first portion of the book, he is literally ringside- quarantined on a ship in the bay- at the Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur. Excellent book.… (más)
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His observations of the Cossacks are fascinating- as well as the millions of other little details in this piece of reportage.
The reason why I would include it in a "maritime" bookshelf, is that during much of the first portion of the book, he is literally ringside- quarantined on a ship in the bay- at the Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur. Excellent book.… (más)