White Death
The 105-day war between Finland and the Soviet Union in the winter of 1939-1940 has been overshadowed by the larger conflicts of the Second World War, which followed closely after it. The courageous resistence of the only neighbor of Stalin's Russia, which fought the Red Army and survived as a free and independent nation merits this closer look. Although the diplomatic background of the Winter War has been covered before, this is the first substantial English-language study of its dramatic military encounters.
Allen F. Chew has specialized in Russian Affairs for more than 30 years. Chew was a research fellow at the Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth. He received his doctorate at Georgetown University in Russian history, and he has taught in that field for the University of Maryland, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where he also served as chairman of the history department. Among his publications are An Atlas of Russian History and The White Death. He is also a regular contributor to Military Review and other professional journals.