"The Russians employed locally recruited Chinese as auxiliaries to perform guard duties on their railways and supply lines on the same unofficial basis as the Japanese. A major of the Russian Frontier Guards relates in his memoirs how he was alarmed to see a group of armed Chinese crossing the railway line ahead of his train, and pointed them out to a fellow officer. The latter told him not to worry - 'they're ours'; when asked how he could tell, he replied 'because they're not shooting at us'."(c) `The Russo-Japanese War 1904-05` (Osprey, Men-at-Arms 414)
Jul. 27th, 2005
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Jul. 27th, 2005 12:49 pmЯпонские военные звания (из оспреевской книжки "The Russo-Japanese War 1904-05"):
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Jul. 27th, 2005 05:13 pmВыложил автобиографию британца Уильяма Николсона, киносценариста (помните "Гладиатора"?) и автора вышедшей в "Эксмо" в июне детской фэнтези "Побег из Араманта" (в оригинале - "The Wind Singer", 2000; роман награжден "Smarties Gold Award"-2000 и объявлен "Blue Peter Book of the Year"-2001).