The Hundred Day Winter War
Subtitle: Finland's gallant stand against the Soviet Army
By: Gordon F. Sander
Series: Modern war studies; Modern war studies
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780700619108
Subjects: Russo-Finnish War, 1939-1940
Description: 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. The author peels away the layers of myth surrounding this Nordic Thermopylae to reveal the conflict in its full military, political, and cultural contexts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-369) and index.
Table of contents: title: A Thermopylae every day: November 30; title: December 25, 1939; title: "A wild day": November 30, 1939; title: "They shall not get us as a present": December 1; title: 11, 1939; title: Steamroller blues: December 12; title: 24, 1939; title: Interregnum: December 26, 1939; title: February 5, 1940; title: The Suomussalmi factor: December 26, 1939; title: January 7, 1940; title: "Nothing of importance on the front": January 8; title: 20, 1940; title: Grand hotel: January 21; title: February 5, 1940; title: The reckoning: February 6; title: March 13, 1940; title: The Red Army's second turn: February 6; title: 23, 1940; title: The gates of Viipuri: February 24; title: March 12, 1940; title: Tears in Helsinki: March 13, 1940.