Dopo aver dato prova di sé nel conflitto contro la Cina, il nuovo Giappone moderno si ritrova a dover affrontare un avversario apparentemente fuori dalla sua portata: la Russia dello zar Nicola II. Il conflitto che scoppierà fra i due paesi avrà delle ripercussioni a livello mondiale.

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Scritto e condotto da Andrea Basso

Montaggio e audio: Andrea Basso

Fonti dell'episodio:

Jesse Alexander, World War Zero - The Russo Japanese War 1904-1905, The Great War, 2022
 
Herbert Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, HarperCollins, 2000  

Georges Blond, Admiral Togo, Jarrolds Publishers, 1961  

Noel Busch, The Emperor's Sword: Japan vs Russia in the Battle of Tsushima, Funk and Wagnalls, 1969  

Shannon R. Butler, Voyage to Tsuhima, Naval History 26, 2012  

Franco Cardini, Sergio Valzania, La scintilla: da Tripoli a Sarajevo. Come l’Italia provocò la Prima Guerra Mondiale, Mondadori, 2014  

Micheal Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts, a statistical reference, Volume II 1900–91, McFarland, 2017  

Richard Connaughton, Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear, Cassell, 2003  

J. Corbett, Maritime Operations In The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905, Naval Institute Press, 1915  

Marc Ferro, Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars, Oxford University Press, 1995  

Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924, Jonathan Cape, 1996

Robert Forczyk, Russian Battleship vs Japanese Battleship, Yellow Sea 1904–05, Osprey, 2009  

R. Garson, Three Great Admirals – One Common Spirit?, The Naval Review 87, 1999  

Andrew Gordon, Social Protest In Imperial Japan: The Hibiya Riot of 1905, Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 12, 2014  

Stephen Gwynn, Spring Rice to Robert H. M. Ferguson. The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice: A Record, Houghton Mifflin, 1929  

Kyung Moon Hwang, A History of Korea, Palgrave, 2010  

Marius Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan, Harvard University Press, 2002  

Geoffrey Jukes, The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905. Essential Histories, Osprey Publishing, 2002  

Yōko Katō, What Caused the Russo-Japanese War: Korea or Manchuria?, Social Science Japan Journal 10, 2007  

Donald Keene, Emperor of Japan, Meiji and his World, 2005  

Eugene Kim, Japanese Rule in Korea (1905–1910): A Case Study, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 106, 1962  

Yoji Koda, The Russo-Japanese War: Primary Causes of Japanese Success, Naval War College Review 58, 2005  

William Koenig, Epic Sea Battles, Octopus Publishing Group, 1977  

Rotem Kowner, Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, The Scarecrow Press, 2006  

Thomas Lyell, Case History of Japan, 1948  

Cristopher Martin, The russo-japanese war, Abelard Schuman, 1967  

Francis McCullagh, With the Cossacks; Being the Story of an Irishman who Rode with the Cossacks throughout the Russo-Japanese War, Nash, 1906  

Bruce Menning, Bayonets before bullets: The Imperial Russian Army, 1861–1914, Indiana University, 1992  

Ian Nish, The Origins of the Russo-Japanese war, Longman, 1985  

John Noss, Man's Religions, 1980  

Oyama Iwao, The National Archives of Japan, National Diet Library  

Sarah Paine, The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy, Cambridge University Press, 2003  

Costantine...

L'odissea dello Squadrone Tedesco dell'Asia Orientale giunge alla sua tragica fine al largo delle isole Falkland, dopo quattro mesi di navigazione, dai mari della Cina fino all'Atlantico meridionale, dopo 44.600 miglia nautiche percorse in acque ostili. Le perdite umane saranno terribili.

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Scritto e condotto da Andrea Basso

Montaggio e audio: Andrea Basso

Fonti dell'episodio:

Teresa Arijón, Alemanes del Volga. Dejaron Rusia y en Entre Ríos fundaron varias aldeas donde celebran sus tradiciones, La Nacion, 2021  

Cristopher Bell, Churchill and the Dardanelles, Oxford University Press, 2017  

Geoffrey Bennett, Naval Battles of the First World War, Pen & Sword Military Classics, 2005  

R. A. Burt, British Battleships 1889–1904, Seaforth Publishing, 1988  

J. Corbett, Naval Operations. History of the Great War based on Official Documents, Imperial War Museum, 2009  

Jason Daley, German Ship Sunk During WWI Found Off Falkland Islands, The Smithsonian, 2019
 
Victoria Dannemann, Alemanes en Chile: entre el pasado colono y el presente empresarial, Deutsche Welle, 2011
 
Aidan Dodson, The Kaiser's Battlefleet: German Capital Ships 1871–1918, Seaforth Publishing, 2016  

H. Glenn Penny, Material Connections: German Schools, Things, and Soft Power in Argentina and Chile from the 1880s through the Interwar Period, Comparative Studies in Society and History 59, 2017  

Erich Gröner, German Warships 1815–1945, Naval Institute Press, 1990  

Paul Halpern, Cradock, Sir Christopher George Francis Maurice (1862–1914), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004  

Peter Hart, La grande storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale, Newton & Compton, 2013  

Hans Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz, Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe: Biographien – ein Spiegel der Marinegeschichte von 1815 bis zur Gegenwart, Mundus Verlag, 1993  

David Howarth, Le corazzate, Mondadori, 1988  

Richard Hough, Falklands 1914: The Pursuit of Admiral Von Spee, Periscope Publishing, 1980  

Stewart Jackson, The First Casualties in the Royal Canadian Navy, 2001  

Hermann Kirchhoff, Maximilian, graf von Spee, der Sieger von Coronel: Das Lebensbild und die Erinnerungen eines deutsches Seemanns, Marinedank-Verlag, 1915  

Nicholas Lambert, Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War, Harvard University Press, 2012  

Robert Massie, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea, Random House, 2003  

Os Alemães no Sul do Brasil, Editora Ulbra, 2004  

Daniele Pompejano, Storia dell’America Latina, Mondadori, 2012  

Franz von Rintelen, The Dark Invader: Wartime Reminiscences of a German Naval Intelligence Officer, Routledge, 1998  

Soft Power, Treccani  

Gary Staff, Battle on the Seven Seas, Pen & Sword Maritime, 2011  

Hew Strachan, The First World War: To Arms, Oxford University Press, 2001  

Gordon Williamson, German Pocket Battleships 1939–1945, Osprey Publishing, 2003

In copertina: HMS Invincible e HMS Inflexible aprono il fuoco sull'Ostasiengeschwader all'inizio della battaglia delle isole Falkland, 8 dicembre 1914. Illustrazione di Eric Tuffnell.

La navigazione dello squadrone di Von Spee verso le coste del Sudamerica prosegue. Al largo delle coste cilene, i Tedeschi affrontano e sconfiggono uno squadrone britannico, per poi penetrare nell'Atlantico. Il viceammiraglio Von Spee sa bene però che le sue navi hanno le ore contate.

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Scritto e condotto da Andrea Basso

Montaggio e audio: Andrea Basso

Fonti dell'episodio:

Teresa Arijón, Alemanes del Volga. Dejaron Rusia y en Entre Ríos fundaron varias aldeas donde celebran sus tradiciones, La Nacion, 2021  

Cristopher Bell, Churchill and the Dardanelles, Oxford University Press, 2017  

Geoffrey Bennett, Naval Battles of the First World War, Pen & Sword Military Classics, 2005  

R. A. Burt, British Battleships 1889–1904, Seaforth Publishing, 1988  

J. Corbett, Naval Operations. History of the Great War based on Official Documents, Imperial War Museum, 2009  

Jason Daley, German Ship Sunk During WWI Found Off Falkland Islands, The Smithsonian, 2019
 
Victoria Dannemann, Alemanes en Chile: entre el pasado colono y el presente empresarial, Deutsche Welle, 2011
 
Aidan Dodson, The Kaiser's Battlefleet: German Capital Ships 1871–1918, Seaforth Publishing, 2016  

H. Glenn Penny, Material Connections: German Schools, Things, and Soft Power in Argentina and Chile from the 1880s through the Interwar Period, Comparative Studies in Society and History 59, 2017  

Erich Gröner, German Warships 1815–1945, Naval Institute Press, 1990  

Paul Halpern, Cradock, Sir Christopher George Francis Maurice (1862–1914), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004  

Peter Hart, La grande storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale, Newton & Compton, 2013  

Hans Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz, Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe: Biographien – ein Spiegel der Marinegeschichte von 1815 bis zur Gegenwart, Mundus Verlag, 1993  

David Howarth, Le corazzate, Mondadori, 1988  

Richard Hough, Falklands 1914: The Pursuit of Admiral Von Spee, Periscope Publishing, 1980  

Stewart Jackson, The First Casualties in the Royal Canadian Navy, 2001  

Hermann Kirchhoff, Maximilian, graf von Spee, der Sieger von Coronel: Das Lebensbild und die Erinnerungen eines deutsches Seemanns, Marinedank-Verlag, 1915  

Nicholas Lambert, Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War, Harvard University Press, 2012  

Robert Massie, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea, Random House, 2003  

Os Alemães no Sul do Brasil, Editora Ulbra, 2004  

Daniele Pompejano, Storia dell’America Latina, Mondadori, 2012  

Franz von Rintelen, The Dark Invader: Wartime Reminiscences of a German Naval Intelligence Officer, Routledge, 1998  

Soft Power, Treccani  

Gary Staff, Battle on the Seven Seas, Pen & Sword Maritime, 2011  

Hew Strachan, The First World War: To Arms, Oxford University Press, 2001  

Gordon Williamson, German Pocket Battleships 1939–1945, Osprey Publishing, 2003

In copertina: Il Good Hope o il Monmouth in fiamme sotto il fuoco tedesco durante la battaglia di Coronel, 1 novembre 1914. Peter Dennis, Osprey Publishing.

Karl von Müller, capitano dell'incrociatore leggero SMS Emden, si porta nell'Oceano Indiano per portare avanti una solitaria guerra di corsa contro i traffici mercantili alleati. I risultati che ottiene rendono lui e la sua nave una vera celebrità in Germania, e uno spauracchio nel Regno Unito.

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Scritto e condotto da Andrea Basso

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Fonti dell'episodio:

Australian War Memorial

Mike Carlton, First Victory: 1914. Australia, Heinemann, 2013

Vic Cassells, The Capital Ships: Their Battles and their Badges, Simon & Schuster, 2000

Cocos, Treccani

J. Corbett, Naval Operations. History of the Great War based on Official Documents, Imperial War Museum, 2009

Todd Crowell, Bloody Dawn in Penang, Naval History, U. S. Naval Institute, 2013

Denis Fairfax, John Collings Glossop (1871–1934), Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1983

Friedrich Forstmeier, SMS Emden, Small Protected Cruiser 1906—1914, Warship Profile 25, Profile Publications, 1972

Tom Frame, No Pleasure Cruise: The Story of the Royal Australian Navy, Allen & Unwin, 2004

Erich Gröner, German Warships 1815–1945, Naval Institute Press, 1990

Paul Halpern, Naval History of World War I, U. C. L. P., 1994

Hans Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz, Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe: Biographien – ein Spiegel der Marinegeschichte von 1815 bis zur Gegenwart, Mundus Verlag, 1993

David Howarth, Le corazzate, Mondadori, 1988

Arthur Jose, The Royal Australian Navy, 1914–1918. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Angus & Robertson, 1941

John Keegan, Intelligence in War, Vintage Books, 2004

V.V. Khromov, Kreysera tipa "Zhemchug", Morskaya Kollekcya, 2005

Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke, German light cruisers of World War II: Emden, Königsberg, Karlsruhe, Köln, Leipzig, Nürnberg, Naval Institute Press, 2002

V. Lobichin, I. Stoljarov, I. Aladin, Еще раз о гибели крейсера «Жемчуг», Istoricheski Rosvik, 1996

R. K. Lochner, The Last Gentleman of War. The Raider Exploits of the Cruiser Emden, Naval Institute Press, 1988

Francis March, History of the World War, U. P. U. S. C., 1919 Hans Mehl, Naval Guns: 500 Years of Ship and Coastal Artillery, Naval Institute Press, 2002

Narrative of the Proceedings of H.M.A.S. Sydney, Naval Review, 1915

Ajay Saini, How German cruiser ‘Emden’ struck terror in the heart of the British Empire, and became a Tamil word, The Hindu, 2020

Gary Staff, Battle on the Seven Seas, Pen & Sword Maritime, 2011

The Emden at Panang, The New York Times, 1914

The War at Sea, The Independent, 9 November 1914

Tragedy in Penang, 2017

Dan Van der Vat, Gentlemen of War, The Amazing Story of Captain Karl von Müller and the SMS Emden, William Morrow and Company, 1984

Keith Yates, Graf Spee's Raiders: Challenge to the Royal Navy, 1914–1915, Naval Institute Press, 1995

In copertina: gruppo di marinai (o di nativi?) in posa di fronte al relitto dell'Emden arenato alle isole Cocos, anni '20 o '30, foto di Allan Green.

Una delle più minacciose formazioni navali della Germania si ritrova isolata nel mezzo dell'Oceano Pacifico. Circondata da ogni lato da territori nemici, il suo abile comandante, sceglie di provare ad attraversare da parte a parte il più grande oceano del mondo, per colpire i traffici alleati e cercare di raggiungere la madrepatria.

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Scritto e condotto da Andrea Basso

Montaggio e audio: Andrea Basso

Fonti dell'episodio:

Geoffrey Bennett, Naval Battles of the First World War, Pen & Sword Military Classics, 2005

Jamie Bisher, The Intelligence War in Latin America, 1914–1922, McFarland & Company, 2016

Bombardment of Papeete, American Forestry, University of Harvard, 1915

Copra, Treccani

J. Corbett, Naval Operations. History of the Great War based on Official Documents, Imperial War Museum, 2009

Noëlle Destremau, Michel Gasse, La défense de Tahiti – Septembre 1914, 1999

Evening Star, 07/04/1917

Ernest Fayle, Seaborne Trade, History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1920

Friedrich Forstmeier, SMS Emden, Small Protected Cruiser 1906—1914, Warship Profile 25, Profile Publications, 1972

J. Gray, Amerika Samoa: A History of American Samoa and its United States Naval Administration, United States Naval Institute, 1960

Erich Gröner, German Warships 1815–1945, Naval Institute Press, 1990

Bruce Gudmundsson, On Armor, Praeger Publishers, 2004

Paul Halpern, Naval History of World War I, U. C. L. P., 1994

Hans Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz, Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe: Biographien – ein Spiegel der Marinegeschichte von 1815 bis zur Gegenwart, Mundus Verlag, 1993

Richard Hough, Falklands 1914: The Pursuit of Admiral Von Spee, Periscope Publishing, 1980
 
Arthur Jose, The Royal Australian Navy, 1914–1918. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Angus & Robertson, 1941

Ian McGibbon, The Shaping of New Zealand's War Effort, August–October 1914, New Zealand's Great War: New Zealand, the Allies & the First World War, Exisle Publishing, 2007

Robert Robinson, Electronic Warfare in WW1

Stephen Smith, The Samoa (N.Z.) Expeditionary Force 1914–1915, Ferguson & Osborn, 1924

Lawrence Sondhaus, The Great War at Sea: A Naval History of the First World War, Cambridge University Press, 2014

Hew Strachan, The First World War: To Arms, Oxford University Press, 2001

Gary Staff, Battle on the Seven Seas, Pen & Sword Maritime, 2011 Sydney Morning Herald, 22 October 1914

J. B. Taltavall, How the Fanning Island Cable Station Was Captured and Destroyed by the Germans, Telegraph and Telephone Age, 1914

Dan Van der Vat, Gentlemen of War, The Amazing Story of Captain Karl von Müller and the SMS Emden, William Morrow and Company, 1984

In copertina: cartolina celebrativa delle navi dello Squadrone Tedesco dell'Asia Orientale. Da sinistra a destra: incrociatore leggero SMS Nürnberg, incrociatore leggero Dresden, incrociatore corazzato Scharnhorst, incrociatore corazzato Gneisenau, incrociatore leggero Leipzig.

In questo secondo episodio speciale, vedremo come l'Impero nipponico, per la prima volta dopo la modernizzazione, abbia gettato uno sguardo oltre i propri confini. Per ottenere il predominio in Asia Orientale ed essere trattato alla pari dalle potenze occidentali, il Giappone dovrà confrontarsi militarmente con la Cina.

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Fonti dell'episodio:

Michael R. Auslin, Toshihiko Kishi, Hanae Kurihara Kramer, Scott Kramer, Barak Kushner, Olivia Morello, Kaoru (Kay) Ueda, Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan, 2021
 
Rosa Caroli, Francesco Gatti, Storia del Giappone, Laterza, 2007
 
Chonin, Encyclopaedia Britannica
 
L. M. Cullen, A History of Japan, 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds, Cambridge University Press, 2003
 
Giuliano Da Frè, Storia delle battaglie sul mare, Odoya, 2014
 
John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War, Pantheon, 1986
 
Peter Duus, Modern Japan, Houghton Mifflin, 1998
 
Peter Duus, The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, University of California Press, 1998
 
Bruce Elleman, Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795–1989, Routledge, 2001
 
Gabriele Esposito, Japanese Armies 1868–1877: The Boshin War and Satsuma Rebellion, Osprey Publishing, 2020
 
David Evans, Mark Peattie, Kaigun: strategy, tactics, and technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941, Naval Institute Press, 1997
 
Allen Fung, Testing the Self-Strengthening: The Chinese Army in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895, Modern Asian Studies 30, 1996
 
Hane Mikiso, Modern Japan: A Historical Survey
 
Sue Henny, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Themes and Theories in Modern Japanese History: Essays in Memory of Richard Storry, A&C Black, 2013
 
James Huffman, Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Routledge, 1997
 
Marius Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan, Harvard University Press, 2002
 
Kim Jinwung, A History of Korea: From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict, Indiana University Press, 2012
 
Philip Jowett, China's Wars: Rousing the Dragon 1894–1949, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013
 
Donald Keene, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912, Columbia University Press, 2002
 
Liu Kwang-Ching, The Cambridge History of China, Late Ch'ing, 1800–1911, Cambridge University Press, 1978
 
James McClain, Japan, a modern history, Norton, 2001
 
Naotaka Hirota, Steam Locomotives of Japan, Kodansha International Ltd, 1972
 
Piotr Olender, Sino-Japanese Naval War 1894–1895, MMPBooks, 2014
 
Christopher Paik, Abbey Steele, Seiki Tanaka, Constraining the Samurai: Rebellion and Taxation in Early Modern Japan, International Studies Quarterly 61, 2017
 
Sarah Paine, The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy. Cambridge University Press, 2003
 
Pebrina, Treccani
 
Christian Polak, Silk and Light: 100-year history of unconscious French-Japanese cultural exchange (Edo Period – 1950), Hachette, 2001
 
Richard Ponsonby-Fane, Kyoto: the Old Capital of Japan, 794–1869, 1956
 
Mark Ravina, To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History, Oxford University Press, 2017
 
Edwin Reischauer, Storia del Giappone, Bompiani, 2013
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