It is disappointing that so few Westerners know about the history of Finland.
Their battle against invasion and tyranny is inspiring and deserving of
recounting. Rifles of the White Death went a long way toward whetting my
appetite for more. Examples of individual bravery during the Winter War are
the things of which true heroes are made. In one accounting, 32 Finn soldiers
held off 4000 Russian infantrymen. By the end of the failed communist attack,
400 Soviets lay dead and the rest in retreat. Only 4 Finns survived, but they
held the line.