Название: Finland at War: the Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941-1945 (Osprey General Military)
Автор: Vesa Nenye, Peter Munter, Toni Wirtanen, Chris Birks
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2016
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 336
Размер: 255 Mb
Язык: English
In the aftermath of the Winter War Finland found itself drawing ever closer to Nazi Germany and eventually took part in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. For the Finns this was a chance to right the wrongs of the Winter War, and having reached suitable defensive positions, the army was ordered to halt. Years of uneasy trench warfare followed, known as the Continuation War, during which Finland desperately sought a way out, German dreams of victory were dashed and the Soviet Union built the strongest army in the world. In the summer of 1944, the whole might of the Red Army was launched against the Finnish defences on the narrow Karelian Isthmus.