Storming the Mannerheim Line
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Storming the Mannerheim Line
19.99 €
The best modern study of the Winter War of 1939–1940.
This war is still cursed as "aggressive" and "unjust." Its victory is portrayed as a "shameful fiasco of the Red Army" and "Stalin's defeat." Its history is thoroughly mythologized and distorted beyond recognition, so much so that at times it is impossible to distinguish fact from fiction. And although information about the Soviet-Finnish War was never completely banned in the USSR, there is every reason to consider it the most unknown, secret, and slandered victory in Soviet history.
This study debunks the most widespread myths about the breakthrough of the Mannerheim Line. With access to comprehensive information and many years of work in domestic and international archives, B. Irincheyev reconstructs the true history of the battles of the harsh winter of 1939–1940, which unfolded from the Arctic to the Gulf of Finland. This book is the best monument to all the heroes and victims of the "unknown" war.
This war is still cursed as "aggressive" and "unjust." Its victory is portrayed as a "shameful fiasco of the Red Army" and "Stalin's defeat." Its history is thoroughly mythologized and distorted beyond recognition, so much so that at times it is impossible to distinguish fact from fiction. And although information about the Soviet-Finnish War was never completely banned in the USSR, there is every reason to consider it the most unknown, secret, and slandered victory in Soviet history.
This study debunks the most widespread myths about the breakthrough of the Mannerheim Line. With access to comprehensive information and many years of work in domestic and international archives, B. Irincheyev reconstructs the true history of the battles of the harsh winter of 1939–1940, which unfolded from the Arctic to the Gulf of Finland. This book is the best monument to all the heroes and victims of the "unknown" war.
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