White Death: A Finnish Farmer's 542 Confirmed Kills
20th Century

White Death: A Finnish Farmer's 542 Confirmed Kills

A Finnish machine gunner spent over a week alone with a hundred Soviet corpses in 1942, waiting for someone to remember he existed.

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World War IIFinlandSoviet UnionWinter WarSimo HäyhäMilitary HistoryNordic CountriesEastern FrontGuerrilla WarfareMarksmanshipScandinavia

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