Korpisota - Kuusamo-Kiestinki 1941-1944

Korpisota 1941 - Attack to the East

Tapio Heiskanen, Mikko Rautiainen, Tom Houlihan

The history book "Korpisota 1941 – Attack to the east" (ISBN 978-952-65799-0-0) first focuses on how Finland found itself in a new war after the Winter War, the Continuation War. After this, the work discusses in detail the events in the Kuusamo-Kiestinki direction, from June 1941 until the end of the year. In June 1941, mobilization was carried out, including in Kuusamo. The eastern border was crossed and the goal was to advance to Kiestinki, perhaps even to Louhi. The advance went very quickly at first, even building a road and the German SS-Division Nord arrived to help. However, the advance began to slow down in August 1941 and stopped at the Battle of Kiestinki. After the Battle of Kiestinki ended, plans were still made to capture Louhi, but the opportunity for this had already been lost at this stage.

The book brings to light a lot of new information, drawing on all possible material on the subject, but above all on Finnish and German war diaries. The book contains a lot of wartime photographs and interactive zoomable maps depicting precise events.

Korpisota 1941 user account from Korpisota Store

By obtaining a user account for the book Korpisota 1941 - Attack to the East, you gain access not only to the core content but also to a wide range of research material providing background on the theater of operations. The account unlocks resources such as a description of the operational area, unit histories for both ground and air forces, summaries regarding logistics units, and lists of casualties from 1941. The logistics summaries also include maps illustrating camp areas in the Kuusamo region, complementing the analysis of the theater’s logistical and organizational structure.