On September 22, 1940, the first ships carrying Wehrmacht soldiers from Nazi Germany arrived in Finland. The startled chief of police at the port city of Vaasa rang the ministry of the interior for ...
Americans like to cheer for the underdog. But when little Finland was invaded by the mighty Soviet Union in December 1939, folks in Southeast Minnesota became more than cheerleaders. This faraway war, ...
Finland’s frontier, as I subsequently found, is only twenty miles from Leningrad at its southernmost tip on the Gulf of Finland. The Muscovite spokesmen shouted through the microphone that the Finns ...