About the book: 1981 / Monograph by Dr. Edward J. Dree, employee of the Research Institute of Combat Development (Command and General Staff College US Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas) "Nomonhan: Soviet and Japanese Tactical Combat, 1939" is the second publication in the Leavenworth Papers series. The study examines in detail the tactics of Japanese infantry at the battalion level in the fighting at Nomonhan/Khalkin Gol in the summer of 1939.