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In 1939, tiny Finland waged war--the kind of war that spawns legends--against the mighty Soviet Union, and yet their epic struggle has been largely ignored. 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 are the elements of both the Finnish victory and a gripping tale of war..
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Marshal of Finland, Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867-1951) was a Finnish forerunner in Asia-Europe Relations. A century ago, 1906-1908, he travelled by horse from Central Asia through North China to Beijing. Mannerheim was then at the service of Imperial Russian Army and his mission was to collect information about China's military forces, their training, capacity and ongoing reforms during the journey. His trip contributed, however, also to scientific knowledge in the fields of geography, ethnology and observation of ancient monuments. What made Mannerheim's mission so interesting to later generation?.
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Jimmy Carson and Joe Lyons met while flying for the Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War. After the Loyalists? surrender, they flew freight all over Europe. In 1939, they flew for the Finns during the Russo-Finnish War. When the Finns surrendered, they flew to Gibraltar where they were imprisoned President Roosevelt intervened and the pilots were released to fly for the British. After the war, they went their separate ways. In 1961, Lyons was killed when he was shot down at the Bay of Pigs. Unwilling to admit Americans were involved, the CIA devised an elaborate cover story that Carson doesn't believe. Years later, he uncovered information that led him to believe Lyons was involved in the Bay of Pigs. Carson decided to investigate and discovered that Castro had Lyons' body frozen to prove Americans participated in the Bay of Pigs..
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