Väinö Linna
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Väinö Valtteri Linna was a Finnish author and a former soldier who fought in the Continuation War. Linna gained literary fame with his third novel, Tuntematon sotilas, and consolidated his position wi
Väinö Linna at Palm Beach, Florida, on a trip to the United States, in March 1963.
Continuation War
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The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet–Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II. It began with a Finnish declaration o
Väinö Linna
…Väinö Valtteri Linna (pronounced ; 20 December 1920 – 21 April 1992) was a Finnish author and a former soldier who fought in the Continuation War (1941–44). Linna gained literary fame with his third novel, Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier, published in 1954), and consolidated his position…
Finnish soldiers at the VT-line of fortifications during the Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive in June 1944
Finnish flags at half-mast in Helsinki on 13 March 1940 after the Moscow Peace Treaty became public
Vasilyevsky Island in Saint Petersburg, pictured in 2017. During the Winter and Continuation Wars, Leningrad, as it was then known, was of strategic importance to both sides.
Finnish, German, and Soviet military formations at the start of the Continuation War in June and July 1941