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Originally Posted by jimbuna
Ah bugga....I was looking forward to the more peronalised/eye witness accounts  |
Ah right. Sadly, while there is tons of books about the wars here, not many of them have been translated to other languages.
I'll see if I can be arsed to translate more stories from the book later.
EDIT: You might like the 'The Winter War' novel by Antti Tuuri, the movie is made after it. While it isn't an eye witness account, it has been stitched together from eye witness accounts and like I said earlier, the battles are real in it.
http://www.amazon.com/Winter-War-Ant...ref=pd_sim_b_5
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The novel is apparantly based on actual war diaries, interviews with veterans and other first-hand sources, all of which, when combined with Tuuris terse writing style, combine to give the book a raw authenticity. Read this book and watch the movie and youll get an insight into what the war was like for the Finnish soldiers on the frontline. Its an insight that the histories and geo-political military-strategic overviews wont give you.
If you are interested in the Russo-Finnish War, I would highly recommend this novel for the look at what it was like at an individual level and for an insight into the personal sacrifices made by the many Finnish soldiers who died to preserve their countries independance and freedom from Soviet tyranny. Well worth the read.
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