Mannerheim Marshall of Finland

Stig Jagerskiold

First Edition Published 1986

Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951), the Finnish soldier and statesman, was one of the most remarkable men of his age. At the height of his fame, during the Winter War of 1939-40, this cultivated patrician - who had been a lieutenant-general in the Russian Imperial Army, seemed a strange leader for a poor, ultra-democratic republic with strong peasant traditions.
A completely professional commander, he was known, and well respected - both for his ruthless determination, as well as his humanitarianism.
This book gives a vivid, almost reverent, account of the life and times of a remarkable man