MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aDL1067.5.M36$bS37 2014
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100 1 $aScreen, J. E. O.$q(John Ernest Oliver),$d1939-
245 10 $aMannerheim :$bthe Finnish years /$cby J.E.O. Screen.
250 $aRevised paperback edition, Second edition.
264 1 $aLondon :$bHurst & Company ;$aNew York, NY :$bDistributed in the United States by Oxford University Press,$c2014.
300 $axii, 290 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 268-277) and index.
505 0 $aTHE WHITE GENERAL -- Finland in 1917 -- Mannerheim's career in Russia -- From 'exile' to command -- From planning to action -- War begins -- Organizing an army -- Mannerheim's strategy and German intervention -- Towards victory -- Triumph -- Resignation -- REGENT -- In Sweden -- From unofficial diplomat to regent -- Military and foreign policy problems -- Elections and a new government -- The constitution -- Intervention in Russia? -- Stylish regent but rejected presidential candidate -- Departure abroad -- CIVILIAN -- Advocate of intervention -- Private life -- Travel -- Humanitarian work -- Passed over for public service -- CHAIRMAN OF THE DEFENCE COUNCIL -- Lapua and Mintsala -- Work in the Defence Council -- Seventieth birthday celebrations -- The language problem -- Foreign relations -- Resignation? -- Negotiations with the Soviet Union continued -- From resignation to commander-in-chief -- THE WINTER WAR -- At war -- War or peace? -- The exercise of supreme command -- THE 'ARMISTICE' -- Peacetime commander-in-chief -- In the 'War Cabinet' -- Finland and German plans -- Towards war -- THE CONTINUATION WAR -- Successful Finnish offensives but no German victory -- Wartime GHQ -- Health -- Attempts to leave the war -- Near disaster -- PRESIDENT -- President for peace -- Under the Control Commission -- Power slips away -- Health deteriorates -- The war responsibility case -- Resignation -- TESTAMENT -- Retirement -- The Memoirs -- Death -- The man -- The legacy.
600 10 $aMannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil,$d1867-1951.
650 0 $aMarshals$zFinland$vBiography.
650 0 $aStatesmen$zFinland$vBiography.