Finnish history

[Uffz.Juschkat]

Are there any Finns out there that can show me a good book about Finnish history? I have been very interested in Finland since researching the Winter war and Continuation war. I would like to know a little bit more about Finnish history in general though, so any help would be appreciated!

 

[LemoN]

There you go. :IS2:

Spoiler!

 

[Alexander Ostmann]

Simply brilliant.

 

[Clowndoe]

Indeed, also, here's another fun thing on Finland to read: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Hayha[/URL]

Give you a hint, it rhymes with BAMF

 

[Actin]

Never thought history could be that fun

Love the cartoon!

 

[Pectus]

That cartoon is made of win

 

[Reise]

All I have is recent stuff.

Spoiler!

Joking aside I'm actually interested, too. After watching Talvisota and all.

 

[Shadrach]

I find it very interesting that first Finland was invaded by the Russians, then they joined Germany in WW2 against Russia, then they fought the Germans (although that was kind of half-hearted apparently).

 

[Oldih]

Besides the image LemoN posted (yes, it's accurate basic gist of it even in the midst of humour) I would recommend Wikipedia as basic barebones info, as every finnish history book I know doesn't AFAIK have any english translations avaible and I am too lazy to scavenge their ISBNs to see if I'm wrong about that.

RedGuardist could probably help with this once he's done raiding museums in Europe.