Mannerheim

The Mannerheim line ... For many years for us, this combination was like the ridge of a fairy -tale villain, from which impenetrable forests grew in the path of the hero, mountainous crickets rose. The figure of the Swedish baron, the creator of a powerful system of fortifications on the Karelian Isthmus, where so many blood of Soviet soldiers in a sad winter war (1939-1940) was shed even more mysterious and sinister.
The author of the book, Professor Leonid Vasilyevich Vlasov, on the basis of numerous documents convincingly proves that Marshal and President of Finland Karl Gustav Mannerheim (1867-1951) does not belong to the cohort of the great villains and belongs not only to Finnish history. A brilliant officer, faithful and truth for thirty years, who served the Russian Empire, left an indelible mark in the combat past of the Russian army. Paradoxically, but, fighting with the Soviet Union, he was not an enemy of Russia.
2nd edition