The Winter War was supposed to be a quick and easy conflict; instead it proved to be a bitter war that destroyed the international reputation of the Soviet Red Army.
The diminutive Finnish force was desperately outnumbered by almost half a million Russian troops, but rather than sweeping across their neighbors, the Soviet troops stumbled blindly, constantly wrong-footed and then bloodied by their seemingly insignificant foe.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, this study looks at three key.
Osprey Publishing (uk) Finnish soldier vs soviet soldier: winter war 1939-40, paperback/david campbell
