The White Death

Simo Häyhä - The World's Deadliest Sniper and the 100 Days That Held Finland

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Gary Mitchell

Verlag:

Independently Published

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35291113

EAN: 9798251202595

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Mi, 02.09.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 27.25

Beschreibung

A man in white. A rifle with iron sights. A forest so cold it can kill you without a shot. In the Winter War of 1939-40, Finland faced an invasion by a vastly larger Soviet force-and held on by turning the landscape itself into a weapon. On the Kollaa front, where daylight is brief and the temperature can break metal and men, one small Finnish soldier became a problem the Red Army could not solve. His name was Simo Häyhä. Later, he would be called "The White Death". -and widely regarded as the world's deadliest sniper. But this is not a legend-polishing retelling. It's the war as it felt. : breath controlled to avoid a visible plume, snow packed to swallow muzzle blast, minutes of stillness that become hours, and a constant, unglamorous discipline that keeps a man alive long enough to be effective. The White Death. follows Häyhä through the most intense stretch of the Winter War-the hundred days. when Finland's line at Kollaa refused to collapse. It tracks the evolution of a battlefield where invisibility is survival; where counter-snipers, artillery, and probability hunt the hunter; and where every shot has consequences far beyond a single target. Told with a tight thriller spine and a historian's restraint, this is a story about skill without myth. , courage without theatre, and the brutal arithmetic of a small nation buying time-day after frozen day-until peace arrives. If you liked Ben Macintyre's. pace and clarity, but want frontline immediacy grounded in real constraints-cold, terrain, logistics, and the limits of certainty-this is the definitive, readable account of the soldier behind the name. THE WHITE DEATH. Simo Häyhä - The World's Deadliest Sniper and the 100 Days That Held Finland. by Gary Mitchell.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Gary Mitchell

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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