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The war in eastern Europe
John Reed, 1919
Named on the page for Battle of Mukden.
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Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Internet Archive.
20 February – 10 March 1905 (7–25 February Old Style)
Battle of Mukden
BEHIND THE RUSSIAN RETREAT
"And then everything was horribly mis- managed. I have seen troops, worn out and half starved by a forty days' railway journey on insufficient food, detrained and sent into battle without an hour's rest. And there was the vodka, too, which we haven't got to reckon with to-day. Before the battle of Mukden I saw whole regiments lying in a drunken sleep on the ground. ... It was an unpopular war — there was no patriotism among the peasants."
Public domain. Text from Internet Archive.