How Finland Survived Stalin Spring26 There is a huge load

There is a huge load at home that still falls to women—whether looking after children

' James Kirchick

But when guilt gnaws at Jack

His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast Asia were the stuff of legend

Realising that to remain meant almost certain death

How Finland Survived Stalin Spring26 There is a huge loadA dramatic and timely account of Stalins failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed In November 1939, Stalin directed his military leaders to launch an invasion of Finland. In what became known as the Winter War, the full might of the Soviet army was pitted against this small Nordic republic. Yet despite their vastly superior military strength, the Soviets suffered heavy losses and failed to mount