About the book: 2017 / Gustav Mannerheim - one of the most complex and dramatic figures in politics of the 20th century: the scion of an impoverished Swedish family, a guardsman who burned life in St. Petersburg, a scout traveler who penetrated into the mysterious regions of Asia, a military general who fought the Japanese and Germans, the leader of the White movement in Finland, who brutally suppressed the Red Finns, a commander who resisted the power of the Red Army, who entered into an alliance with Hitler, but refused to storm Leningrad... The biography, compiled on enormous archival material, reveals a new Mannerheim.