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Frozen Hell by William R Trotter

Masterfully recreates all the heroism, tragedy and drama of a campaign whose lessons deserve far more attention.
--General James R. Galvin, former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

Mr. Trotter tells brilliantly a piece of history that needed telling.
--The Washington Times

Trotter's account is the best one yet of this unique war.
--The Virginian-Pilot

This is a book of battles--savagely fought, often with great heroism on both sides, under brutal, subarctic conditions. Guerrillas on skis, heroic single-handed attacks on tanks, unfathomable endurance, and the charismatic leadership of one of this century's true military geniuses--these were the elements of Finland's short-lived victory.

For all the epic resistance of the Finns, the outcome was foreordained. Belatedly the Russians realized that an expected easy triumph over a vastly outnumbered foe had become a slaughterhouse. Incompetent commanders were replaced, more and better troops were moved into position, and orders were given to overwhelm and crush the Finns by the sheer weight of massed numbers. But even though they lost on the battlefield, the Finns' pointed resistance kept the Iron Curtain from drawing closed around their land and allowed Finland to remain free, even as other countries fell one by one.

Trotter's love for the Finns, his clear, evocative prose, and his deep knowledge of his subject combine to resurrect a fight that will never again be forgotten.

Trotter, William R.: - William R. (Bill) Trotter wrote his first novel at the age of 14. It was not publishable, of course, but a senior editor at Viking Press liked it well enough to become a valued mentor over the next ten years. Since that time, he hasn't looked back in forty-five years. Trotter eschewed the traditional graduate-school MFA route to literary respectability (and job security), choosing instead the goal of actually supporting his family entirely by writing. For a long time, he was only partially successful at this, but he finally said farewell to part-time real jobs in 1983 and has, in fact, earned his entire living by the sweat of his keyboard ever since. Trotter told an interviewer back in 1994: I've worked in some of the grubbiest neighborhoods of the scribbler's trade and deployed all my skills and obscene amounts of my time in projects that meant nothing at all to me personally and that most proper Literary Authors would consider demeaning. But my reasoning was this: I would approach every freelance job, no matter how unglamorous it was, with the idea that I could learn something from the work that I could apply, later, to the projects that were personally important; and that I would never submit work-for-hire that I would be ashamed to have my by-line attached to. That 's one reason why Trotter has been able to leap successfully from one genre to another. (That's also the reason why his agent once told him: You have the most interesting resume in the business, Bill, but that doesn't necessarily make you marketable!) To thousands of computer game addicts, he is The Colonel, the Senior Writer for PC Gamer magazine, whose monthly column about war and strategy games (The Desktop General) has run continuously for fifteen years. To fans of the horror and fantasy genres, he's the respected author of compelling short stories and novellas, whose work has twice been nominated for the prestigious Bram Stoker Award. To aficionados of military history, he's the author of the best-selling trilogy The Civil War in North Carolina and the definitive English-language history of the Russo-Finnish Winter War, A Frozen Hell. To music lovers, professional orchestra players, record collectors, and no small number of well-known conductors, he's the author of a world-renowned biographer of the great Dimitri Mitropoulos, Priest of Music. To readers of mainstream literature, he's a witty essayist, a respected book reviewer, and the author of four critically acclaimed novels, one of which has been optioned for a major motion picture. In early 2004, the North Carolina English Teachers' Association chose him to be the first recipient of a special Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in Greensboro, NC.
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ISBN 13 9781565122499
ISBN 10 1565122496
Title Frozen Hell
Author William R Trotter
Condition Unavailable
Binding type Paperback
Publisher Workman Publishing
Year published 2000-01-01
Number of pages 285
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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