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Music Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War, episode 148, The Winter War

Part 6, The War in the North.

This week, a big thank you goes out to Raymond, Ronald, Brian, and Preston

for choosing to support the podcast by becoming members, and to Max for the donation. You can find out

more about either option at History of the Second World War.com slash members. Throughout December

1939 and into January, 1940, there would be fighting in many areas of Finland north of Lake Ladoga.

The last two episodes has discussed some of this fighting, and this episode will look at some of the other fighting that would happen in this area,

before the focus of next episode shifts back to the major fighting that would happen on the Isthmus.

One of the disclaimers I'll give at this point, and really this goes for the entire podcast,

is that this is not an exhaustive discussion of all of the fighting that would occur in

central and northern Finland.

There were countless small engagements and raids and battles fought during the war,

and to look at each of them in any detail would be an entire podcast.

I've pulled out a few sections of the

fighting for a more detailed examination in this episode, just to give you an example of what was

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