99: Nomonhan Pt. 1 - Changkufeng

During 1938 the border tensions between the Soviet Union and Japan would explode on the hill of Changkufeng near Lake Khasan.

Sources:

Anti-Russian and Anti-Soviet Subversion: The Caucasian-Japanese Nexus, 1904-1945 by Hiroaki Kuromiya and Georges Mamoulia

Japanese Geopolitics and the Mongol Lands, 1915-1945 by Li Narangoa

Khalkin-Gol: The Forgotten War by Amnon Sella

The Lake Khasan Affair of 1938: Overview and Lessons by Alvin D. Coox (1973)

Soviet-Japanese Confrontation in Outer Mongolia: The Battle of Nomonhan-Khalkin Gol by Larry W. Moses (1967

Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 by Alvin D. Coox

Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II by Stuart D. Goldman

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