In December 1939, the Soviet Union launched a large-scale invasion of Finland, expecting a rapid victory that instead turned ...

As fighting intensified in Finland and the first aerial clashes occurred over Europe, the conflict between China and Japan ...

In The Winter Warriors, translated by Nick Caistor and based on the 105-day Winter War (and especially on the exploits of ...

These novels take readers to frigid Finnish forests, the sweltering Caribbean, Jim Crow America and war-torn Paris.

Pasi Tuunainen grew up observing the academic career of his researcher father and decided that he would never become one himself. Yet, today, he is one of Finland’s leading military historians and a ...

Poet Glyn Watkins brings his St Walburga-inspired show to Bradford’s Waterstones, 25 Feb. Stories include his mother’s escape ...

Top 10: Best seaplanes of World War 2 ...

When the 105-day war ended, almost 400,000 Soviet soldiers had been killed or wounded or were missing. The Kremlin reported minor losses. Vladimir Putin, a Stalin admirer, should have studied the ...

When my grandfather went to war in 1939, he didn't hesitate. Today, only 35% of Brits would do the same. What has changed in our national psyche?

Cortina-d’Ampezzo, Italy, has changed a lot since 1941, when Italy’s Benito Mussolini held his own world "Games." ...

Helmed by Thérèse Ahlbeck and Marcus Olsson, Netflix’s ‘The Swedish Connection,’ or ‘Den svenska länken,’ dives into the ...