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Synopsis
In the spring of 1918, young men who had been neighbours, workmates and schoolfellows a year earlier met on the bridges above the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere and tried to kill one another. Within four months, roughly thirty-seven thousand Finns were dead, and most of them had died not in battle but in execution pits, prison cells and starvation camps.
This sweeping narrative history traces how one of Europe's most literate, law-minded societies, with a parliament elected by universal suffrage, tore itself apart. It begins with the crofter's labour debt and the mill girls of Tampere. It follows the collapse of the Russian Empire, the rival Red and White Guards, the Jägers trained in secret in Germany, and Mannerheim's improvised army. It covers the German landing at Hanko, the massacres at Viipuri and Hennala, and the hunger camps where more prisoners died than soldiers fell in combat.
It then follows the harder story of what came after. A defeated people won land, pardons and a democratic republic, and a divided nation spent a century learning to remember all its dead.
Vivid, humane and unsparing, this is the definitive account of the war that made modern Finland.
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Gabrial Baldongan grew up in Ireland with a childhood steeped in stories of rebellion, partition and a civil war whose silences lingered long after the shooting stopped. That inheritance drew him to other small nations that won their independence in the turbulent years after the First World War and then turned their guns on one another. A lifelong reader of European history, he has travelled widely through the Nordic and Baltic countries. He has spent years exploring the archives, memoirs and memorial landscapes of the Finnish Civil War. He writes narrative history for general readers, combining sweeping political drama with the lives of ordinary people caught inside it. He is fascinated above all by how divided societies learn, slowly, to remember together.
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