The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945; 'August Storm' (Cass Series on Soviet (Russian) Military Experience, 7)
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The book is remarkably well researched. It should be in every university library, because they are vital to any scholarly specialist or graduate student who wishes to understand either the Second World War or Soviet military thinking..
-Dale R. Herspring--Kansas State University, 9/2004
Book Description
At the request of its Western Allies, on 9 August 1945 a force of over 1.5 million Red Army soldiers, supported by over 5500 tanks, and 27,000 artillery pieces, unleashed a massive offensive against the vaunted Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria. Employing extensive and imaginative maneuver to overcome terrain thought to be impenetrable, within two weeks, the attacking forces overcame formidable Japanese defenses along a front of more than 2700 miles spanning the most formidable terrain an army has ever faced, utterly demolished the Japanese defenders, and forced them to surrender. The Red Army's spectacular military victory in Manchuria has provided military theorists with an ideal model for the conduct of modern maneuver in war.
Volume I covers in detail the background, strategic regrouping, and strategic planning and conduct of the offensive.
The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945 (Cass Series on Soviet (Russian) Military Experience, 7),Colonel Glantz,Frank Cass,0714652792,Campaigns,China,Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union,History,History - Military / War,History: World,Manchuria,Military - World War II,Soviet Union,World War, 1939-1945,Battles & campaigns,European history: Second World War,Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe),History / Military / General,Japan,Land forces & warfare,Second World War, 1939-1945
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