CONTENTS

Illustrations

Maps

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

PART I. Onslaught and Riposte

1.   The Reasons Why

2.   The Baron

3.   Order of Battle

4.   First Blows

5.   “The People’s Republic of Finland”

6.   The Mannerheim Line

7.   The Karelian Isthmus: Round One

8.   “A Stupid Butting of Heads”

PART II. Uncommon Valor: Battles in the Fourth Corps Zone

9.   Tolvajärvi: The First Victory

10.   The Kollaa Front: They Shall Not Pass!

11.   The Mottis of General Hägglund

PART III. The White Death

12.   The Winter Soldiers

13.   Suomussalmi: A Military Classic

14.   Mr. Mydans Visits the Kemi River

PART IV. The January Lull

15.   The Air War

16.   The Outside World Responds

17.   The Russians Get Serious

PART V. The Storm

18.   Tidal Wave

19.   Breakthrough!

20.   Dance of the Diplomats: Round One

21.   Fighting for Time

22.   Dance of the Diplomats: Round Two

23.   Time Runs Out

24.   Aftershocks

Chronology

Notes on the Sources

Index