What year was that, when Zhukov destroyed the Japanese army in Manchuria? I do not recall that bit of history. I do recall the Japanese handing the Russians a defeat in 1905.
Military history is a subject that my son and I, are both into fairly well.
Battle of Nomonhan/Khalkin Gol where Zhukov first made his name at the expense of the Kwantung Army.
The official name is the Second Russo-Japanese War. The first one, of course, was the 1905 war, primarily a naval one.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khalkhin_Gol
“I do not recall that bit of history.”
Not surprising as these battles never got much attention in the West despite the fact that almost 45000 Imperial Japanese Army soliders were killed during the Kwantung Army’s anhilation by the great Zhukov’s forces.