Sentence examples similar to a winter war from inspiring English sources

The toppled trade center resembled a nuclear winter war zone.

On a side table is a history of the Winter War of 1939-40, in which greatly outnumbered Finnish forces thwarted a Soviet attempt to annex their country.

The Molotov cocktail is a term coined by the Finns during the Winter War, as a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons.

Individual fitness was calculated as the expected number of children, averaging over whether a father survived the Winter War, i.e. Pr(died in war) × (number of children|died) + Pr(Survived war) × (number of children|survived).

Reading this book in the light of the suffering of the Finnish people in 1939 as they were caught up in the turmoil of their Winter War casts a different glow over what is essentially a classic adventure story.

The Winter War was a bitter experience for the Red Army, the parade never happened, and Shostakovich would never lay claim to the authorship of this work.

The two ships of the Baltic Fleet did not play a prominent role in the Winter War, but did have their anti-aircraft guns significantly increased before Operation Barbarossa in 1941.

Huntford is now editing a book for the Fram museum (named after Amundsen and Nansen's ship) in Norway, and he's contemplating a book on Sweden and the winter war between Finland and the Soviet Union in 1939.

The deadliest sniper is generally considered to be Finn Simo Häyhä, credited with 542 career kills, 500 of which occurred during a 100-day period in the Winter War with the Soviet Union.

During the country's Winter War (1939 1940) and Continuation War (1941 1944), a quarter of a million Finnish women volunteered in an organization called Lotta Svärd, named after the wife of a fictional literary soldier.

The escalating winter war in Ukraine provides a grim backdrop to the talks in Munich.