About the book: 2004 / This book, based on previously inaccessible documents, describes the history of the confrontation between special sabotage units of the USSR and Finland during the “winter” and Great Patriotic War. Raids of Soviet commandos deep into Finnish territory, blowing up bridges and weapons depots, kidnapping important Finnish bigwigs. Retaliatory punitive raids of Finnish special forces on Russian soil. This is an unknown page of the war that raged in the Karelian forests and polar tundra. The book publishes for the first time unique photographs from the archives of Russia, Finland, and personal collections.