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Daniel Ashworth's avatar

Recommend the Memoirs of Zhukov who begins his history of WW2 with his experience as a Soviet commander at Khalkhin Gol

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Alan R Richards's avatar

S.C.M Paine's *The War for Asia, 1911-1949* is also revealing. By defeating the Japanese at Khalkin Göl (Nomonhan), and the consequent reorientation of Imperial Japanese strategy toward the Pacific, Stalin could feel safe in withdrawing Siberian and Kazakhstan-based troops (e.g. the Panfilov Division) to use the to reinforce the defense of Moscow in the Winter of 1941/42. Far too few people are aware of the importance of all of this.

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