Finland's Winter War How a Small Nation Held Back Stalin
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
20.04.2026
Verlag
Vij BooksSeitenzahl
376
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/2,3 cm
Gewicht
609 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-7794-257-1
In the winter of 1939-40, the Soviet Union expected Finland to yield quickly. It had the weight of a great power: manpower, armour, artillery, aircraft, and a political system accustomed to imposing decisions by force. Finland had little of that. Yet the campaign did not unfold as a simple arithmetic of resources. In forests, along frozen lakes, and on narrow road networks, advantage had to be converted into usable combat power - moved, supplied, maintained, and commanded - and the conversion repeatedly failed at the moments that mattered most. Finland's Winter War: How a Small Nation Held Back Stalin explains the conflict as a contest between scale and operational adaptation. Leif Thornvale shows how winter warfare is not merely fighting in cold weather, but a total environment that reshapes tempo, logistics, weapons reliability, and the human capacity to endure. Through campaign case studies and decision-focused analysis, the book traces how Finnish units leveraged terrain literacy, cohesion, and flexible command to slow larger formations, disrupt supply lines, and force repeated Soviet resets. It also tracks Soviet learning: how mass and firepower could be reorganised to break fortifications, and why institutional friction slowed, unevened, and cost it. Written for general readers as well as students, historians, and analysts, the book offers more than narrative. It provides a practical framework for thinking about small-state defence: how defence in depth works as a strategy of time, why morale and legitimacy are forms of combat power, and how logistics in extreme cold can determine which tactics are even possible. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the Winter War itself and a clearer method for evaluating future conflicts where environment, cohesion, and institutional learning may matter as much as numbers on paper.
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