The Legacy of the Past -- The Global Context -- Changkufeng -- Nomonhan : Preliminaries -- Nomonhan : A Lesson in Limited War -- Nomonhan, the Nonaggression Pact, and the Outbreak of WW II -- Nomonhan Casts a Long Shadow : Lessons of Nomonhan : Learned and Not Learned -- Epilogue
Summary
This is the story of a little-known Soviet-Japanese conflict that influenced the outbreak and shaped the course of the Second World War. In the summers of 1937, 1938, and 1939, Japan and the Soviet Union fought a series of border conflicts