A Frozen Hell

The true story of the battle between Finland and Russia that erupted at the dawn of World War II.Winner of the Finlandia Foundation Award for Arts and Letters On a November morning in 1939, Soviet bombers began attacking Helsinki, Finland. In the weeks that followed, the tiny Baltic republic would wage a war—the kind of war that spawns legends—against the mighty Soviet Union, which was desperate for a buffer against Nazi Germany.With “a well-balanced blend of narrative and analysis” ( Library Jo