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This book identifies the strange coalition between Germany and Finland in World Warfare II, and their joint armed service functions from 1941 to 1945. That is a subject often absent in British, though in stark distinction to the numerous literature on the shorter and less bloody Winter Warfare. That conflict represented a gallant combat of the democratic "David" against a totalitarian "Goliath" that caught the creativity of the world. The storyplot of Finland fighting with each other alongside a "Goliath" of its has not brought pride compared to that land and was an interval many Finns would rather ignore. The prologue of the book brings the listener up to speed by briefly analyzing the difficult history of Finland, from its parting from the Soviet Union in 1917 to its isolation after being bludgeoned in 1939-40. After that it examines both Finnish and German motives for developing a coalition from the USSR, and how - as reasonable as a common enemy would seem - the lack of true planning and preparation would doom the alliance. This book posits that it was mind-boggling how the highly professional German General Staff allowed itself to simply accept the militarily unsound and shaky coalition that resulted. The conflict aims were not discussed or harmonized, there have been no campaign plans with duties and missions spelled out past the first assault, no effective main effort established, inadequate drive levels, and an unsound control framework with various headquarters. Practically every guideline in the book was broken. The aim of linking up with the Finns in the Leningrad area was a significant factor in Hitler opting for three main drives in to the Soviet Union rather than an earlier OKH plan that needed only two. After talking about the operations during and after Barbarossa, this book describes how the Finnish movie theater became a blind ally for the Germans. Their most powerful and best army was captured both operationally and geographically in central and north Finland, making nearly no contribution to the conflict effort. The Germans cannot bring to endure enough forces to accomplish their aims without significant Finnish assistance, and this was not forthcoming. The ultimate chapters deal with the Soviet counteroffensive from the Finns in 1944. The Finns lost almost all their increases and quickly concluded another armistice. This still left the German forces in Finland to simply vacate the place, fighting between your Finns and Soviets alike as they tried to return to the primary war. Jointly suffering 291,000 casualties, the only real consolation was that the coalition got inflicted some 830,000 on the Soviets. On this book, Henrik Lunde, a ex - US Special Procedures colonel, and the renowned author of Hitler's Pre-emptive Warfare: The Struggle for Norway, 1940, once more fills a serious gap inside our knowledge of World Warfare II.

Category: Germany

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Publisher	Audible Studios
Language	English
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DATE	2013-03
Author	Henrik Lunde

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