Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II

Stuart Goldman convincingly argues that a little-known, but intense Soviet-Japanese conflict along the Manchurian-Mongolian frontier at Nomonhan influenced the outbreak of World War II and shaped the course of the war. The author draws on Japanese, Soviet, and western sources to put the seemingly obscure conflict-actually a small undeclared war- into its proper global geo-strategic perspective. The book describes how the Soviets, in response to a border conflict provoked by Japan, launched ...