Dimensions
128 x 197 x 24mm
The Russian invasion of Finland in November 1939 was a critical turning point in world history. Only now, with the opening of the Russian archives, can this extraordinary story be told in full. Two months after his cynical alliance with Hitler and their joint invasion of Poland, Stalin ordered the Red army to crush the Finns. Everybody expected a walk-over: the odds were ten-to-one in Stalin’s favour. But the Finns fought bravely and the Red Army—its high command decimated by Stalin’s purges—stumbled from defeat after defeat. Tens of thousands of Russian soldiers died in the snow. Only after four months and the massing of over a million men and thousands of guns did the Russians break through and force the Finns to accept terms.
