TY  - BOOK
AU  - VAN DYKE Carl
TI  - The Soviet invasion of Finland 1939-1940
SN  - 0714643149 (pbk.):
PY  - 1997///
CY  - London
PB  - Frank Cass
KW  - RUSSO FINNISH WAR
KW  - SECOND WORLD WAR
KW  - SOVIET UNION
KW  - ARMED FORCES
N2  - Using Russian archives and previously classified material this book documents the experience of the Russian army in the conflict for Finland. Examines the Soviet use of diplomacy and threat of force then goes on to describe the Red Army's poor performance during the invasion and how it had to relearn the techniques of modern warfare lost as a result of Stalin's purge of the officer corps in the late 1930s
ER  -