The Hundred Day Winter War: Finland's Gallant Stand Against the Soviet Army

by Gordon F. Sander

When the Red Army invaded Finland in November 1939 most observers expected a walkover. Instead, in a gallant stand that captured the world's imagination, the tiny Finnish army was able to hold off Stalin's mechanized echelons for 105 days.

Gordon F. Sander peels away the layers of myth surrounding this Nordic Thermopylae to reveal the conflict in its full military, political, and cultural contexts. A bestseller in Finland, the English-language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700619100
• ISBN13: 9780700619108
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"