For People Who Devour Books

Mar 2003

Finland, Military history, Russia & the Soviet Union, Second World War

Peter Weston

Special Operations

Toying With History

Pillars of the Nation

Untold Suffering

For Valour

Peter Weston

A Snow-White Hell

The Winter War: The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-40

By William R Trotter

Autumn Press 283pp £18.99

THE RUSSO-FINNISH War of 1939-40 is now almost forgotten. In this new book the American military historian William Trotter tells of the spirited Finnish resistance to the Russian invasion. Their backs-to-the-wall determination stirred hearts across Europe throughout the dark days of that winter.

Conflict between Russia and her diminutive neighbour had been intermittent ever since Peter the Great selected the delta of the river Neva, a bug-infested swamp, for the site of his new capital, St Petersburg. The city is barely a hundred miles from the Finnish border and, in October 1939, Stalin