The vicious 14-week war between the Finns and the Russians ended in March 1940 when the Finns finally surrendered a large part of their territory to the Soviet invaders. 500 000 were evacuated from the Karelian isthmus the scene of the war's most terrible fighting. It was a hollow victory since for much of the war the Russians took a drubbing from the determined and resourceful Finns who organised the defence of their country brilliantly. It is believed that one million Russians
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Part of the documentary series looking at the most significant battles of the Second World War. This volume traces the course of one of the war's more obscure campaigns, the 14-week conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union over the winter of 1939/40. Although the Finns were eventually beaten by the Soviets, their determined and resourceful resistance cost the Red Army a million casualties and helped convince Hitler of Soviet weakness in the face of his own planned invasion of the USSR. Also featured is the history of the German invasion of Norway and Denmark in 1940, the precursor to the German invasion of France, Belgium and the Low Countries a few months later.
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