A Monograph. — Fort Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies United States Army Command and General Staff College, 1993. — 57 p. This monograph conducts a doctrinal analysis of Red Army planning and execution of the Soviet-Finnish War to determine if poorly developed doctrine was the cause of Soviet failures. Military doctrine is critical to a nation. Sound doctrine...
London: Frank Cass, 1997. — 245 p. Western accounts of the Soviet-Finnish war 1939-1940 have been reliant on Western sources. Using Russian archival and previously classified secondary sources to document the experience of the Red Army in conflict with Finland, Carl Van Dyke offers a reassessment of the conflict.
Stackpole Books, 1973. Were you to travel from the Arctic Ocean to the city of Leningrad, along the Russo-Finnish border in the year 1939, you would have had a complex journey. The frontier itself separating the two countries was little more than a wide swath cut through the forests, or a line snaking around lakes and rivers. Dotted along the way were groups of border guards at...
Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 304 p. The story of the 'Winter War' between Finland and Soviet Russia is a dramatic David versus Goliath encounter. When close to half a million Soviet troops poured into Finland in 1939 it was expected that Finnish defences would collapse in a matter of weeks. But they held firm. The Finns not only survived the initial attacks but succeeded in...
Tallinn: Karjalan Kuvalehii, 2011. — 80 p. — ISBN: 978-9949-21-807-3 The War of Liberation The Development in the 1920s and 1930s The Soviet Union lanches a Second War on Finland The Soviet Union launches a Third War on Finland The Lapland War The Report of the War Guilt Trial in Finland 1945 – 1946 OM 22/2010
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 229 p. — (St Antony's Series). — ISBN10: 3319946455; ISBN13: 978-3319946450. This book offers an illuminating bridge between the political and social dimensions of the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-40. The conflict represented a significant crisis for the Soviet Union, inspiring international condemnation and a significant loss of face for its...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 244 p. This book offers an illuminating bridge between the political and social dimensions of the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-40. The conflict represented a significant crisis for the Soviet Union, inspiring international condemnation and a significant loss of face for its supporters, both at home and abroad. The focus of this study is not upon the...
North Carolina and London, McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers Jefferson. 2010. — 261 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7864-3981-2 Finland’s heroic struggle to preserve independence and defend its territories, citizens, and culture against the Russian superpower to the east has been acknowledged many times, as have the bravery and resourcefulness of the Finnish troops in the 105-day conflict...
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. — 283 p. On November 30, 1939, the largest, richest, most powerful nation in Europe (the Soviet Union, with a population of approximately 100 million) launched a mighty invasion against one of Europe’s smallest, poorest, and weakest nations (the Republic of Finland, with a population of 3.7 million). Militarily, the odds were so...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 282 p. This book analyzes the multi-faceted phenomenon of Finnish military effectiveness in the Winter War (1939–1940). Drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, Pasi Tuunainen shows how by focusing on their own strengths and pitting these against the weaknesses of their adversary, the Finns were able to inflict heavy casualties on...
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