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The Winter Warriors
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A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A bestselling, award-winning World War II novel about the heroism of a single Finnish infantry company - and the best sniper the world has ever seen - defending their country against the largest army in the world. November 1939- The...
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A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
A bestselling, award-winning World War II novel about the heroism of a single Finnish infantry company - and the best sniper the world has ever seen - defending their country against the largest army in the world.
November 1939- The Soviet Union invades its tiny, relatively defenceless neighbour Finland, just three months after the declaration of World War II. So begins what is known as the Winter War. A small makeshift company of soldiers, workers, and farmers must face off against columns of tanks and Stalin's Red Army fighters.
In this propulsive and deeply moving narrative based on the true story of the Finnish infantry division, heroes emerge- the star sniper Simo Hayha, nicknamed the 'White Death'; the young men from farms and villages who meet again on the battlefield to fight for their homes; and nurses who must treat old childhood friends. The soldiers go to battle with old guns as their wounds freeze in the unforgiving cold, and yet not only do they resist the Soviet soldiers, but they force the superpower to offer terms for peace only a few months later.
Drawing on the real-life figures and battles of the Finnish-Soviet Winter War, The Winter Warriors is a riveting, heart-pounding, epic historical thriller from one of Europe's most acclaimed crime writers.
'The Winter Warriors is the timely, thrilling, and deeply affecting novel of this extraordinary national cliffhanger ... Combining fascinating reportage with actual and imagined conversations, this page-turner falls into a genre of new fiction in which the verite of events becomes subordinated to Norek's brilliant character-study of a shy but natural-born killer ... The appeal of this tour de force owes a lot to its intensity, brilliance, and ferocity, but also to a deeply moving portrait of an accidental patriot who discovers that the way to save his country is to perfect the fine art of the sniper's revenge.'
-Robert McCrum, The Independent
'A novel you will not put down. Maybe never.'
-Richard Ford
'Exhaustively researched, subtle, sensitive, and set against the background of a war which resonates with the present day. There are more than a few similarities between this story and the current Russian aggression in Ukraine.'
-France Info
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781761382147
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 February 2026
Country: Australia
Imprint: Scribe Publications
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 155.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 443g
Pages: 352
About the Author
Olivier Norek (Author) Olivier Norek spent eighteen years in the French police force before beginning to write crime fiction. Since then, his books have sold millions of copies and won many prizes. The Winter Warriors is his first historical novel. While researching the book, Norek spent three months (the duration of the war itself) in Finland, experiencing the -35 C conditions in which the war was fought and in which more than 130,000 Russian soldiers died before Finland and the Soviet Union signed a peace treaty in March 1940.
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