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Stuart Goldman convincingly argues that a little-known, but powerful, Soviet-Japanese conflict across the Manchurian- Mongolian frontier at Nomonhan influenced the outbreak of World War II and designed the span of the war. The writer pulls on Japanese, Soviet, and traditional western sources to place the apparently obscure discord - actually a little undeclared warfare - into its proper global geo-strategic point of view.The book details the way the Soviets, in response to a boundary discord provoked by Japan, launched an offensive in August 1939 that wiped out the Japanese pushes at Nomonhan. At the same time, Stalin signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, allowing Hitler to invade Poland. The timing of the military services and diplomatic hits had not been coincidental, according to the author. In forming an alliance with Hitler that still left Tokyo diplomatically isolated, Stalin succeeded to avoid a two-front warfare. He found the pact with the Nazis in an effort to pit Germany against Britain and France, giving the Soviet Union on the sidelines to eventually grab the spoils from the Western european conflict, while at exactly the same time giving him a free of charge hands to smash the Japanese at Nomonhan. Goldman not only demonstrates the linkage between your Nomonhan discord, the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, and the outbreak of World War II , but also shows how Nomonhan influenced Japan's decision to visit war with america and therefore change the span of history. The booklet details Gen. Georgy Zhukov's brilliant win at Nomonhan that resulted in his command word of the Red Army in 1941 and his success in preventing the Germans at Moscow with reinforcements from the Soviet Far East. Such a strategy was possible, the author contends, only because of Japan's decision never to attack the Soviet Far East but to seize the oil-rich Dutch East Indies and invasion Pearl Harbor instead. Goldman credits Tsuji Masanobu, an influential Japanese officer who instigated the Nomonhan discord and survived the debacle, with urging his superiors never to undertake the Soviets again in 1941, but instead to visit war with america.
