The Winter War by Robert Edwards

Author:Robert Edwards [Edwards, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-4532-1824-2
Publisher: Pegasus
Published: 2011-08-19T04:00:00+00:00

But by the time Chuikov’s unwelcome report arrived at Voroshilov’s office, it was irrelevant to the matter in hand. Given that the northern flank of the Ninth Army had ceased to exist, attention was turning to the prospects down on the Karelian Isthmus, which were dire indeed:

Welcome though the captured booty was to Siilasvuo’s men, much of it was a total mystery to them. Of particular curiosity were the plaited leather whips sewn with ball bearings and picked up by the dozen, with which the politruki apparently ‘encouraged’ their men. Some of the hardware was equally remarkable; the weird recoilless cannon, mounted on truck chassis, were certainly novel, but of no immediate or obvious value, as it was not clear quite how they worked. The captured tanks were pleasing, but shortages of trained crew and fuel rather militated against their widespread constructive use. Unhappily, their ammunition was not ‘interoperable’ with existing Finnish ordnance, but the modest artillery park benefited none the less.

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