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It is March 1904, a relatively mild day in Siberia, but the air temperature is still well below zero.

The surface of lake by car has frozen solid into a blue black layer of ice.

It is thick and strong enough for thousands of Russian troops to march straight across,

the most direct route to their destination.

There are makeshift camps on the ice where soldiers can rest, horses pull sledges of

provisions and armaments. The battalions sit together, crowded around a stove,

their bayonets propped to one side against a pile of logs.

The men wear fur hats and boots and thick wool and coats. This wig from bottles of vodka to warm

their bellies, clap their cold hands to get the circulation going and stamp their numb feet onto the ice.

These men are headed to Port Arthur, a thousand miles to the east.

It is a harbour in Manchuria nestled between China and Korea, a world away from Moscow,

but controlled by Russia. It is there that the Japanese have launched an attack on the Russian

naval fleet. In the scramble to defend their eastern stronghold, these men need to get supplies

to the beleaguered port and fast. Now the Russians' secret weapon approaches.

It is a train creeping along an iron track laid on the ice. It has traveled all the way from Moscow,

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