When the young Finnish woman left her home country in the 1930s, she was headed for Stalin's Soviet Russia, lured by the dream of living in a worker's paradise. But that dream turned into a nine ...
While Häyhä’s kill count seems almost unbelievable, the reality is that his achievements came from traditional Finnish fieldcraft and the extreme patience of a hunter. The Finnish M/33 sniper ...
A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety years later, her granddaughter has translated the diary into English.