Table of Contents

List of Maps 7

List of Photographs 9

Preface 11

Introduction: An Awkward Little Country 13

Prologue: The Stranger from a Sunken World 19

1 Naboth's Vineyard 28

2 Bear-baiting: The Emerging Crisis 60

3 Questions of Command 92

4 The Assault on the Isthmus 108

5 Responses 128

6 The Ordeal of Ninth Army 152

7 In Ladoga-Karelia 175

8 Counter-attacks 191

9 Manoeuvres: The Gate of the Year 202

10 A Hare-brained Scheme... 214

11 The Red Army Reforms Itself 228

12 Endgame: Red Storm 240

13 Outcomes 272

Appendix The Russo-Finnish Treaty, of Moscow, 12 March 1939 283

Notes to the Text 290

Select Bibliography 305

Index 310