Henrik O Lunde: 2 books
A Warrior Dynasty
The Rise and Decline of Sweden as a Military Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
There has been a recent trend in history to interpret the rise and fall of great powers in terms of economics, or demographics, or geography. This is not always true, as this book proves, because sometimes pure military skill can propel a nation to prominence, if it is simply able to crush all its...
Finland's War of Choice: The Untidy Coalition of a Democracy and a Dictatorship in World War II
The Troubled German-Finnish Coalition in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
A selection of the Military Book Club. This book describes the odd coalition between Germany and Finland in World War II and their joint military operations from 1941 to 1945. This is a topic often missing in English though in stark contrast to the numerous books on the shorter and less bloody Winter...