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|  The Winter WarAntti Tuuri’s The Winter War is the novelist’s sincere tribute to the Finnish soldiers of the Winter War, the 105-day war following Russia’s invasion of Finland in November of 1939. Events are seen through the eyes of Martti Hakala, now an old man, who had been a rank-and-file soldier of the 23rd Infantry regiment, a unit drawn mainly from the province of Ostrobothnia. Like so many of his countrymen, Matti was called up to defend his country in this national emergency.
| | |  Seven BrothersAlong with The Kalevala, Aleksis Kivi’s Seven Brothers is Finland’s most celebrated literary treasure. The crowning accomplish-ment of Finland’s first literary genius, Seven Brothers remains “the greatest Finnish novel of all time”, the classic among the classics in Finnish literature.
| | |  Red Moon over White SeaLaila Hietamies is Finland's best-selling author with more than 30 novels to her credit. Red Moon over White Sea depicts the experiences of the people of Karelia at the beginning of the 20th century through two young girls growing up to become school teachers, falling in love and inadvertently ending up on opposite sides of the Civil War in Finland.
| | |  Golden King of the ForestThis book presents the bear, the divine being who descends from heaven and begets the forefathers of the clan, as he appears in the myth and folk tradition of the Northern World of Finland and its neighboring lands.
| | |  Ancient Powes of the Baltic SeaAncient Powers of the Baltic Sea - An Historical Outline Outlines the Historical background to the events in the Finnish epic, The Kalevala. It discusses the historical developments in Sweden-Finland, Estonia, and the entire Baltic Sea during the Middle Ages, when the sea united the countries border ing on it.
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