From: WAYNE MERRY <wmerry@earthlink.net>
Subject: NEW BOOK ON SOVIET-JAPANESE WAR OF 1939
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012
NEW BOOK ON SOVIET-JAPANESE WAR OF 1939
JRL readers will be interested in a new book about the brief but important limited war in the summer of 1939 between the Soviet Union and Japan along the Manchurian-Mongolian frontier.
If you thought this was just a skirmish or two, you are in for quite an eye opening.
The book is "Nomonhan, 1939" by Stuart Goldman, until recently the long-time Russia expert at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.
Based on extensive research in Russian and Japanese sources, Goldman brings this obscure but critical episode into the historical light it deserves.
The book not only recounts the events in clarity and detail, but reveals the decision-making processes on both sides and, indeed, the sharp contrast of decision-making cultures in Stalinist Russia and Imperial Japan.
A major theme is the relationship of these events in the Far East with Stalin's diplomacy leading to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. A very worthwhile addition to the literature, available from the Naval Institute Press.
From: WAYNE MERRY <wmerry@earthlink.net>
Subject: NEW BOOK ON SOVIET-JAPANESE WAR OF 1939
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012
NEW BOOK ON SOVIET-JAPANESE WAR OF 1939
JRL readers will be interested in a new book about the brief but important limited war in the summer of 1939 between the Soviet Union and Japan along the Manchurian-Mongolian frontier.
If you thought this was just a skirmish or two, you are in for quite an eye opening.
The book is "Nomonhan, 1939" by Stuart Goldman, until recently the long-time Russia expert at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.
Based on extensive research in Russian and Japanese sources, Goldman brings this obscure but critical episode into the historical light it deserves.
The book not only recounts the events in clarity and detail, but reveals the decision-making processes on both sides and, indeed, the sharp contrast of decision-making cultures in Stalinist Russia and Imperial Japan.
A major theme is the relationship of these events in the Far East with Stalin's diplomacy leading to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. A very worthwhile addition to the literature, available from the Naval Institute Press.