The Anatomy of a Small War: The Soviet-Japanese Struggle for Changkufeng/Khasan, 1938

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Book by Coox, Alvin D. Cover Title Copyright Contents Illustrations Foreword Preface NOTES Prologue NOTES Notes to Reader Abbreviations 1. The Setting NOTES 2. Early Rumblings NOTES 3. The TokyoCommand Level NOTES 4. Reconnaissance in Force NOTES 5. First Involvement of the 19th Division NOTES 6. The High Command Consultants NOTES 7. The Failure to Win Imperial Sanction NOTES 8. The Effort to De-escalate NOTES 9. Shachaofeng: Japanese Curse or Boon? NOTES 10. Crossing the Tumen NOTES 11. Mounting the Assault Against Changkufeng NOTES 12. The Night Attack NOTES 13. The Anchor Heights: Sato Kotoku and the Loneliness of Command NOTES 14. Postmortem: Costs, Claims, and Critiques NOTES 15. Fait Accompli and Problems of Rapport NOTES 16. Russian Retaliation NOTES 17. Intensification of the Ground War NOTES 18. Reorganizations, Frustrations, and Restraints NOTES 19. The Second Soviet Offensive NOTES 20. Crisis on the Crest NOTES 21. Continuation of the Soviet Offensive NOTES 22. Developments of 8-9 August NOTES 23. Attrition’s Toll NOTES 24. Escalation or Break-off? NOTES 25. The Role of Diplomacy NOTES 26. Achievement of a Cease-fire NOTES 27. Stilling the Guns NOTES 28. Implementation and Pull-back NOTES 29. Military Wind-up and Unfinished Business NOTES 30. Lessons WHAT THE USSR LEARNED JAPANESE LESSONS ABOUT THE RUSSIANS JAPANESE LESSONS ABOUT THE JAPANESE NOTES 31. Questions of Causation and Cartography PRIVATE VIEW AND RETROSPECT FOREIGN ESTIMATES: BRITISH, AMERICAN, CHINESE JUDGMENT FOR POSTERITY NOTES 32. Changkufeng in the Context of Limited War NOTES Appendix: Dramatis Personae Bibliography JAPANESE SOURCES WESTERN SOURCES A NOTE ON SOVIET SOURCES Index ABOUT THE AUTHOR