Story of a Hero

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Dowly

AFAIK, it's only available in Finnish.

You could try Frozen Hell by William Trotter, I've heard it's a good book about the Winter War. Review of it here: http://www.fireandicemovie.com/Frozen_hell.htm

Ah bugga....I was looking forward to the more peronalised/eye witness accounts

[Dowly]

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

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.

[XabbaRus]

Well, what are you waiting for Dowly?

You just translated two of them, only a hundred and three left

Whose the chick in your sig? Looks like Lohan.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

Whose the chick in your sig? Looks like Lohan.

Keira.

[XabbaRus]

Digitally enhanced than I see...

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Dowly

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

I'll look into that...cheers

[AVGWarhawk]

Glad I popped back into this thread. I finished "Clash of the Carriers" last night and need to head on over to Amazon to order new books.