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Simo Häyhä - The World's Best Sniper - White Death

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Simo Häyhä –Bohater wojny radziecko-fińskiej.
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Zapytany, co uczyniło z niego tak dobrego strzelca, odparł krótko: Ćwiczenie.
Wojna zimowa 1939-1940 stała się starciem Dawida z Goliatem. Mimo miażdżącej przewagi w ludziach i sprzęcie, Armia Czerwona napotkała zajadły opór oddziałów fińskich, bohatersko broniących swej ojczyzny. Walki toczone w ekstremalnie trudnych warunkach, przy temperaturach osiągających nierzadko 40 stopni poniżej zera, ujawniły wszystkie słabości armii radzieckiej.
W szeregach Finów walczył Simo Häyhä, który już wkrótce miał zyskać wśród czerwonoarmistów miano „Białej Śmierci” – ukrytej wśród śniegu i gotowej uderzyć w każdej chwili.

208 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2015

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September 2, 2019
There are very few English language books on the Winter War, and even fewer upon certain topics like Simo Häyhä.

So while it is good that such a book exists, it does have one massive drawback, the translation is horrible. It honestly looks like they fed the contents through Google Translate and just pressed print, rather than looking at it. Some sentences are very poorly constructed, some have repetitions of the same word, others make no sense whatsoever. The book has so much potential but the translation lets it down greatly.

The big points is that it doesn't just focus upon Häyhä but also upon other characters that play an important role in the battles that Häyhä took part in. The book doesn't seem to glorify Häyhä's achievements but lay them out in their context. It does have an issue with making claims such as Finland winning both the Winter and Continuation Wars, which it didn't but besides that, the book isn't so bad.
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April 22, 2021
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