Kari Wikholm's Novel The Corporal's Road Tells the Story of His Father in Battles that Are Rarely Described in Military Literature on the Hanko Front at the Beginning of the Continuation War.

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Is there still room for new war writers in Finland? Erkki Palolampi started the modern form of war novels with his Winter War depiction Kollaa tästä, which was published in 1940. In 86 years, several generations of writers have gone through the same battles of the Winter and Continuation War in their novel series. 90 novels about the Winter War alone were published before they were banned in November 1940 – that is, only half a year after the en…