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	Winter War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Finnish immigrants in the United States and Canada returned home, and many volunteers (one of them actor-to-be Christopher Lee) travelled to Finland to join Finland's forces: 1,010 Danes, 695 Norwegians, 372 Ingrians, 346 Finnish expatriates, and 210 volunteers of other nationalities made it to Finland before the war was over.
		This partial healing of the wounds and rifts after the Civil War in Finland (1918), and Finland's language strife, is still referred to as "the Spirit of the Winter War," although it should also be noted that many communists were not allowed to fight in Finland's conscripted army because of their political background.
		The World War had not really begun yet and it was known by the public as the Phony War; at that time the Winter War was the only real fighting besides the German and Soviet invasion of Poland, and thus was a major focus of the world's interest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winter_War (3842 words)

	Finnish War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Winter War - is sometimes called the Russo-Finnish War
		The Finnish war was finished with the treaty of Fredrikshamn on September 17, 1809.
		The Finnish War was fought between Sweden and Russia from February 1808 to September 1809.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finnish_War (330 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Russo-Finnish War
		Russo-Finnish War, also known as the Winter War, war fought between Finland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1939 and 1940, during the beginning of World War II, following the inability of the two countries to reach an agreement on Soviet demands for territorial concessions.
		The ensuing war of attrition cost the Russians heavily, but it succeeded in breaking most of the Finnish resistance.
		Finland's standing army, which at the war's onset consisted of three infantry divisions, a cavalry brigade, and a tank company, was bolstered by trained and partly trained reserves.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761559416__1/Russo-Finnish_War.html (735 words)

	The Russo-Finnish War
		With the exception of the Spanish Civil War, --- the Russo - Finnish Winter War was the most highly reported conflict in the western press during the period between WWI and WWII.
		The Finnish army may have been motley, but they were perfectly suited for the landscape --- many were farmers from the region, and they fought a guerrilla war not unlike that of Indochina 25 years later.
		War in the wilds of Finland is not something to be taken lightly.
	www.ralphmag.org /winter-warZJ.html (820 words)

	MW #7 V1, May 4, 1940 article 3
		The Finnish guard surprised at their request, informed them that that was no question of them facing the firing squad as the Finns do not shoot their prisoners.
		Before the war broke out between the Allies and Germany it was estimated that Stalin had 114 infantry 35 cavalry and 5 armoured divisions ready, equipped and mobilized.
		As a country that has been wooed by both sides in the present war, it is of great importance to try and assess the true value of the Russian military machine, and discover whether it is as good as its fans tell us or as bad as its detractors would have us believe.
	pages.zdnet.com /topcat-nz/modernworld/id3.html (1622 words)

	The Finnish Winter War
		Finnish troop strengths were down to one half or one third of original and the Finns were nearly out of ammunition.
		To slow down the 163rd in the north, Finnish ski troops made wide circling flanking movements of 20 to 30 miles under cover of the long night and caught the rear and middle parts of the column by surprise.
		After World War I, Finland had been given control of the Åland Islands by the League of Nations and with the consent of Sweden with the understanding that no military forces were to be stationed on them.
	www.kaiku.com /winterwar.html (2789 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Russo-Finnish War
		Russo-Finnish War, also known as the Winter War, war fought between Finland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1939 and 1940,...
		Russo-Japanese War : pictures related to the Russo-Japanese War
		Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil, Baron (1867-1951), Finnish army officer and statesman, born in Vilnäs.
	encarta.msn.com /Russo-Finnish_War.html (267 words)

	The Battles of the Winter War -Main Page
		The Finnish blue swastika was originally the symbol of luck of the family of Count von Rosen, who donated to the Finnish "White Army" it's first plane, in 1918, during the War of Independence.
		Tactics - Finnish and Soviet tactics during the Winter War (in short)
		After the fall of the 3rd Reich, the Finnish Defense Forces abandoned the disreputable swastika in favor of the new national marking; the blue and white roundel.
	www.winterwar.com /mainpage.htm (411 words)

	History House: Those Burly Finns
		They sang "party war songs and [continued] to advance with the same steady, suicidal rhythm even as the mines began to explode, ripping holes in their ranks and showering the marchers with feet, legs, and intestines." As one Russian soldier put it, "Company commanders...
		While Finnish field doctors knew, for example, that morphine would freeze in the cold unless stored in the mouth or armpit, their Russian counterparts scratched their heads as their wounded howled in pain.
		The Finnish commander, Mannerheim, struggling to explain the determination on both sides described the Russian soldiers as posessing "a fatalism incomprehensible to a European." Some regiments would link arms and march in a line to clear minefields.
	www.historyhouse.com /in_history/winter_war (1937 words)

	Gunwriters' Suomi SMG, 2/2
		The Finnish 70 rd. drum for KP/-31 was his innovation, and it proved to be the most succesful magazine of the Suomi submachine gun, both before and during World War II and until the mid-Fifties.
		The shameful war in Finnish Lapland was over on April 27, 1945, less than two weeks before the end of WWII.
		Third Independence War of Finland (so called by the then President Risto Ryti in 1941) is usually known as the Continuation War, because it was an inevitable continuation of the Winter War, which in itself was a continuation of the Independence War of 1918.
	guns.connect.fi /gow/suomi2.html (5603 words)

	Russo-Finnish War -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Baltic states and the Russo-Finnish War, 1939–40
		More results on "Russo-Finnish War" when you join.
		Hear a northern and southern perspective on the causes of the Civil War.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9064491?tocId=9064491 (751 words)

	Eastern Front
		During the war Finland was an ally of Germany and took the opportunity to take back the land that she had lost during the Russo-Finnish War.
		At the outbreak of the war, General Kirponos was in command of the Russian forces in the south facing General Rundstedt's army.
		This battle is known as the greatest tank battle of the war and involved 2 million men, 6,000 tanks, and 4,000 aircraft.
	www3.sympatico.ca /ergrenier/East.html (10214 words)

	Amazon.com: The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on Finland 1939-1940: Books: Eloise Engle,Lauri Paananen
		This is a wise move as the Winter War was tactically simple - there were no fancy maneuvers, it was basically soldier-to-soldier fighting in the dark and cold, where the elements were at least as dangerous as the enemy.
		Even so, the war is little known in the west, coming as it did just after the Nazi/Soviet partition of Poland, during the Sitzkrieg, and just before the Nazi invasions of Norway and Denmark.
		He portrays the war as it really was, a brutal and mostly forgotten part of the second World War.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0811724336?v=glance (1831 words)

	Finnish-Russian War
		Finnish-Russian War, 1939–40, war between Finland and the Soviet Union.
		Legacy of the Cold War: ON THE TRAIL OF THE IRON CURTAIN; From the Arctic to the Black Sea, the 4,000km border that divided the Communist bloc from the West is set to become a heritage walk.
		Finnish, Russian Prime Ministers Discuss Chechnya Issue HELSINKI, December 15 (Xinhua) -- Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen explained to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Wednesday the decisions taken by the Helsinki European Council regarding the position of the European Union (EU) on Chechnya.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0818713.html (480 words)

	World War 2 Timeline 1939-1945 - Worldwar-2.net
		World War 2 involved every major world power in a war for global domination and at its end, more than 60 million people had lost their lives and most of Europe and large parts of Asia lay in ruins.
		By the evening of September 3rd, Britain and France were at war with Germany and within a week, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa had also joined the war.
		It formed a significant part of the Wehrmachts Panzer strength in the first two years of the war and by 1940 two full Panzer divisions had been equipped with this tank.
	www.worldwar-2.net (904 words)

	Lest We Forget - The Russo-Finnish War
		The massive attack was able to breach the Finnish defense in Valkeasaari on June 10, and the front retreated rapidly to the secondary defense line of the Finns, the Vammelsuu-Taipale Line (This line had been erected after the Winter War as a defense against a possible Soviet invasion).
		The "Continuation War" is the war in which Finland fought alongside Germany against Russia from June 25, 1941 to September 4, 1944.
		Main contributors to these victories were the fighting spirit of the Finnish troops and the skillful use of small unit tactics in the forests on the road-bound attackers.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/9764/warfin1.html (4296 words)

	References: Military and war related books and publications
		The original film version of the most famous Finnish war novel "Unknown Soldier" by Väinö Linna.
		History of Finnish military uniform model 1936 (M/36), from the development of the uniform to the end of the WWII in 1945.
		Approaches the war not only from a overall view but from life 'down in the trenches'.
	www.hkkk.fi /~yrjola/war/refs (1329 words)

	the XVth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History, Melbourne
		This paper explores British policy towards the Russo-Finnish War, with particular emphasis on the rationale for the dispatch of British volunteers in the final weeks of the conflict.
		This hasty expedition was the culmination of months of temporising by the War Cabinet as it contemplated the possibility of combining aid to the Finns with broader schemes for intervention in Scandinavia.
		Her thesis is concerned with British 'soldiers of conscience' in European wars.
	www.history.unimelb.edu.au /AAEH/speakers/Roberts.html (145 words)

	Hunter Johnson -- Winter Wargames
		A Frozen Hell: The Battle of Tolvajärvi, Russo-Finnish War, 1939 (The Gamers)—the link goes to Udo Grebe Gamedesign's page for the game, which is more informative than The Gamers' order page.
		A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-40, covering the Winter War.
		Winter War: The Russo-Finnish Conflict 1939-1940 (S&T #33)
	www.hunterandlori.com /WinterWargames.html (390 words)

	The Winter War History
		On March 13, 1940, the Winter War ended, with the Russians nabbing 12% of Finnish territory (more than their original "offer"), and a 30 year lease on a peninsula to on which to build a naval base.
		The Finns were commanded to clear their people out of the ceded territory in twelve days, and to construct a special rail line for the Russians which would bisect Finland.
		However, the Russian timetable was not being met, and the fight for Finland was starting to become a manpower and material nuisance for the Russians.
	www.relativerange.com /rrnl/rr05/russfinn.htm (460 words)

	Powell's Books - A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 by William R. Trotter
		Guerrillas on skis, heroic single-handed attacks on tanks, unfathomable endurance, and the charismatic leadership of one of this century's true military geniuses-these are the elements of both the Finnish victory and a gripping tale of war.
		In 1939, tiny Finland waged war-the kind of war that spawns legends-against the mighty Soviet Union, and yet their epic struggle has been largely ignored.
		The epic David and Goliath story of tiny Finland's gallant fight to overcome the military might of Russia during World War II.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-1565122496-0 (131 words)

	The front-line in the Karelian Isthmus during the Winter War
		The Karelian Isthmus was the main theater of operations in the Winter War.
		Since it provided the best road network and the shortest route into Southern Finland, it was the most heavily fortified and defended, and the actions there decided the outcome of the war.
		The front-line in the Karelian Isthmus during the Winter War
	www.winterwar.com /Maps.htm (111 words)

	Second World War Books: Books by Subject
		White Death: The Epic of the Soviet-Finnish Winter War.
		Rohwer, J. and Hummelchen, G. Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939-1945.
		Hitler's Arctic War: The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland, and the USSR, 1940-1945.
	www.sonic.net /~bstone/bib/bib105000.shtml (284 words)

	Russian, Front, Barbarossa, Kursk, Arctic, Convoys, Smolensk, Kiev, Moscow, Stalingrad, Battle
		By mid-month the Finns are effectively at war with Germany although the formal declaration is not made until March.
		Following the setting up of a provisional Hungarian Government in the Russian-held area, war is declared on Germany on the 31st and an armistice signed with the Allies in late January 1945.
		Stalin agrees to declare war on Japan once the war in the west is over.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsRussianFront.htm (4634 words)

	THE RUSSO-FINNISH WINTER WAR: 1939-40.
		Considers Finnish attempts to indentify itself with the Scandinavian countries and maintain neutrality.
		Diplomatic history of negotiations preceding the Winter war of 1939-40.
	www.academicresearchpapers.com /abstracts/6000/06252.html (52 words)

	Second World War Books Review
		All in all, another valuable addition to serious study of the Russo-Finnish War, but not a book with a great deal of glamour or broad appeal, and certainly not intended to be an operational account of the campaign.
		This record provides a remarkable window into how the Soviets fought that war, what lessons they learned from it, and how they planned to use their new knowledge in future campaigns.
		His assistant, V. Novobranets—in memoirs that were not published until 1990, six years after his death in 1984—claimed (without documentary proof) that all the facts of Finnish preparations had been compiled in a 'black album', containing detailed photographs, copies of which had been distributed to all Red Army commanders in Karelia.
	stonebooks.com /archives/020210.shtml (1619 words)

	War Diary 1939
		It will be followed by War Diaries for each year of the war, and is only available from MLRS.
		It covers all European countries and the Americas, and tells of a world expecting war and sometimes planning for it.
		It relates day by day the political, social, economic and military events that occurred during the year in which the war broke out.
	www.wargamesdirectory.com /html/MLRS/mlrs.asp?ID=49 (113 words)

	Norway, Narvik Battle, Hunter, Scharnhorst, Blucher, Gurkha, Karlsruhe, Trondheim, Oslo, Arctic, Russian, Convoys, North Cape, Bergen, Suffolk, Hardy, Trident
		Russo-Finnish War - Conclusion - A peace treaty on the 13th brings the war to a close, with Finland ceding the disputed territory to the Soviet Union.
		Russo-Finnish War - Negotiations on border changes and control of islands in the Gulf of Finland break down and Russia invades on the 30th.
		- Right to the end of the war there is no let-up in the struggle against the U-boats, especially faced with the threat from the new and dangerous Types XXI and XXIII.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsNorway.htm (3815 words)

	THE SOVIET-FINNISH WAR (1939-40)
		Furthermore, when war broke out again between Finland (now a co-belligerent of Nazi Germany) and the Soviet Union in 1941 -- a war known officially and significantly in Finland as the 'Continuation War' -- it was clear to most observers that Finnish charges that the Soviet Union initiated the conflict were false.
		President, that the independence of the Finnish Republic as a State was recognised spontaneously by the Soviet Government on December 31, 1917, and that the sovereignty of Finland is guaranteed by the Treaty of Peace between the RSFSR and Finland, signed on October 14, 1920.
		The Finnish government replied on 27 November, denying that their troops had been responsible for the incident complained of and proposing, firstly, that discussions should take place on the mutual withdrawal of both Finnish and Soviet troops from the frontier and, secondly, that a joint inquiry should be held into the incident:
	harikumar.brinkster.net /CommunistLeague/CL-FINLANDWAR90.html (11585 words)

	GMT GAMES: Arctic Storm
		Six weeks into what the world is calling the "Winter War," western journalists get their first chance to visit the front.
		Arctic Storm recreates the four-month Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union in 1939-40.
		a war that presaged a very different winter war between the Russians and the Germans two years later.
	www.gmtgames.com /nnas/gmtnnas0.htm (406 words)

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