Brown of Moukden: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War

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Herr Schwab under Fire
Brown of Moukden
A Story of the Russo-Japanese War
HERBERT STRANG
AUTHOR OF KOBO: A STORY OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR TOM BURNABY BOYS OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE ETC.
Illustrated by William Rainey, R.I.
G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1906
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
— Tennyson's Ulysses .
My dear Raymond,
Last year I wove a romance about the early incidents of the great war now happily at an end; this year I have chosen its later incidents as the background for my hero's adventures. But while in Kobo the struggle was viewed from the Japanese stand-point, in Brown of Moukden (which is in no sense a sequel) you will find yourself among the Russians, looking at the other side of the shield. It is not the romancer's business to be a partisan; and we British people were at first, perhaps, a little blind to the fact that the bravery, the endurance, the heroism, have not been all on the one side.