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On November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union's Red Army invaded the young nation-state of Finland, in the full expectation of routing the small, ill-equipped Finnish army and annexing the former Russian territory by the end of the year. But Finland held out for 105 bitterly cold, fiercely combative days, until March 15, 1940, when a peace agreement ended the short, savage Winter War. At the stirring center of the story lie the resourcefulness and resolve...
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On November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union's Red Army invaded the young nation-state of Finland, in the full expectation of routing the small, ill-equipped Finnish army and annexing the former Russian territory by the end of the year. But Finland held out for 105 bitterly cold, fiercely combative days, until March 15, 1940, when a peace agreement ended the short, savage Winter War. At the stirring center of the story lie the resourcefulness and resolve...
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This authoritative account of the 105-day war between Finland and the Soviet Union in the early stages of World War II focuses on the human side of the story, particularly the bravery of the Finns who, despite being outnumbered, fought the Red Army tenaciously and held out far longer than anyone expected. The Soviet Union invaded Finland in November 1939 but was soon bogged down amidst wintry conditions and fierce Finnish resistance. Finland was finally...
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"Rok 1939, Finlandia. Siergiej Muchalew - oficer NKWD - podąża za Armią Czerwoną, poszukując informacji o tajemniczym Pasie Ilmarinena. Kierowany ogromnymi ambicjami, nie cofnie się przed niczym, by zdobyć artefakt, szczególnie że za jego sprawą Sowieci mogliby z łatwością zapewnić sobie zwycięstwo. Tymczasem w fińskiej puszczy swoje badania prowadzi Angielka Penelopa Tayne, dla której konflikt obu państw jest ogromnym zagrożeniem....
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"In November of 1939, when Finland was invaded by the Soviet Union, no one expected that this tiny nation could resist the largest military force in the world. And no one anticipated that 1939 would be one of the coldest winters in recorded history, what historians have called a frozen hell. Filmed on the old battlefields of Finland and Russia, "Fire and Ice" dramatically depicts the intensity of the warfront and the homefront"--Container.
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