In 1939, tiny Finland waged war—the kind of war that spawns legends—against the mighty Soviet Union, and yet their epic struggle has been largely ignored. Drawing upon accounts by veterans and first published in 1991, this history of Finland's fleeting victory features guerrillas on skis; heroic single-handed attacks on tanks; and the charismatic leadership of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, one of the 20th century's true military geniuses.