The winter war
Subtitle: the Russo-Finnishconflict, 1939-40
By: (by) Eloise Engle and Lauri Paananen.
Contributors: Paananen, Lauri.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Russo-Finnish War, 1939-1940.
Description: "It was in the late autumn of 1939 that the so-called Winter War began. The Russians did not plan on Finnish resistance to take a take-over of their country ... For 105 days in 1939-40 one of the toughest campaigns of the early World War II era was fought. In the context of global war, it was relatively small and yet an estimated 2 million Russian and Finnish soldiers took part. It cost the Soviets a possible 1,000 airplanes and 2,300 tanks. It was not until 1970 that Khrushchev's memoirs revealed the loss of a million Russian lives in the Winter War"--P. viii.
Notes: Bibliography, p. 163-165.