THE WINTER WARRIORS

OLIVIER NOREK

(Éditions Michel Lafon, 431 pages, 2024)

2024 PRIX RENAUDOT DES LYCÉENS

***A masterstroke*** Le Figaro

***…Once again, Olivier Norek, the humanist, blows us away*** Le Parisien

The Winter Warriors takes us back to WWII in a small country that recently became independent, Finland. Faced with invasion by the largest army in the world, we follow a small division of soldiers, workers and farmers, armed with old rifles, fighting against columns of tanks and millions of Stalin’s Red Army fighters.

At its command, an ex-legionnaire and notable alcoholic who goes by the nickname of The Horror and a young man who will change the course of history. During the bitterest of winters and the deadliest war in the country’s history, a new legend is born, that of Simo Häyhä aka The White Death.

Thanks to the author’s immense work of research and sense of narration, The Winter Warriors is an epic historical novel infused with suspense and humor.

Writer and screenwriter, Olivier Norek is the author of seven widely acclaimed international best-selling thrillers, all published by Editions Michel Lafon. He has sold 3 million copies in France alone and won over twenty prestigious literary prizes. He is translated in 14 languages including English (UC&CW only.)