Mannerheim

The Mannerheim Line… For many years, this combination was like the crest of a fairytale villain, from which impenetrable forests and towering mountain cliffs grew on the hero's path. The figure of the Swedish baron, the creator of a powerful... system of fortifications on the Karelian Isthmus, where so much blood of Soviet soldiers was spilled in the infamous Winter War (1939-1940), appeared even more mysterious and sinister.
The author of the book, Professor Leonid Vasilyevich Vlasov, convincingly proves, based on numerous documents, that the marshal and president of Finland, Carl Gustav Mannerheim (1867-1951), does not belong to the cohort of great villains and is part of not only Finnish history. A brilliant officer who served the Russian Empire faithfully for thirty years, he left an indelible mark on the combat past of the Russian army.