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The Winter War [F 6] was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II , and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940.
The Winter Soldier is a 2018 historical novel written by Daniel Mason.Set in 1914 Vienna, it tells the story of Lucius, a 22-year-old medical student, and a field hospital nurse following the outbreak of World War I.
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb is a 2016 military history book by Neal Bascomb. It tells the story of the Norwegian operation to sabotage the Vemork heavy water plant during World War II. [1] [2] [3]
Experiences from the disastrous 1941 German advance on Moscow in winter conditions led to the 1942 Taschenbuch für den Winterkrieg ("Pocket book for Winter War"), which highlighted ideal approaches to handling winter, but acknowledged that improvisation in the field would be necessary when supplies were lacking. The Soviet troops in that ...
The Commander of Swedish volunteers General Ernst Linder and his Chief of Staff Carl August Ehrensvärd in Tornio during the Winter War. The Winter War was fought in the four months following the Soviet Union's invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939. This took place three months after the German invasion of Poland that triggered the start of ...
$11.99 at amazon.com. The Snow Child: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize in Letters: Fiction Finalists) In 1920 Alaska, recent arrivals Jack and Mabel arrive to create a homestead.
A research project Trotter started while at Davidson College about the Winter War eventually became the history book A Frozen Hell, published in 1991. [3] It was awarded the Arts and Letters Prize of the Finlandia Foundation. A trilogy of books on the American Civil War in North Carolina was published in 1991 and 1992.
The background of the Winter War covers the period before the outbreak of the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union (1939–1940), which stretches from the Finnish Declaration of Independence in 1917 to the Soviet-Finnish negotiations in 1938–1939. Before its independence, Finland had been an autonomous grand duchy within Imperial ...