Pienellä Mäntysaarella, pari kilometriä Hangon keskustan itäpuolella, on pieni niemeke, joka työntyy Hangon kuuluisilta hiekkarannoilta suoraan Itämeren syliin. Vaahtopäät lyövät voimalla ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Revered but flawed statesmen, often with a military background, loom over the 20th-century history of Europe ...
In spring 1919, Finland’s regent, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim, was awarded the title of doctor honoris causa in philosophy at the University of Helsinki. To commemorate this event, the Helsinki University ...
Object 212 was a Soviet self-propelled gun project born from the failures exposed during the Winter War against Finland. The Red Army needed a more powerful and mobile weapon after existing tanks and ...
Finnish resistance has continued to draw admiration by commentators, military thinkers, and strategists over the decades since the end of the conflict, who continue to mine the Winter War for valuable ...
This is a reissue of the second volume of the revised 2000 edition of the late British historian Screen’s life of Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951). Screen opens with a brief review of Mannerheim's ...
Renny Harlin’s long awaited Finnish project Mannerheim gets shoot date and location change After more than 10 years of preparations, Finnish Hollywood-director Renny Harlin’s come-back to local ...
STOCKHOLM — Helmer Renny Harlin is returning to his native Finland to make “Mannerheim,” his long-gestating biopic about the Finnish national hero. Pic will be produced by Solar Film’s managing ...