Petsamo Front Movie

Russian WWII buffs have made this short film by mixing news reels with reenactors on real WWII sites in the Arctic.

I like the way the German Arctic news reel transforms into today's landscape, and how the film team have made use of the Titovka bunkers. The Soviets portrayed are NKVD border guards, who fought well.

The name of the film in English is "Seventh Day of the War". It is an amazing Russian amateur "Saving Private Ryan", filmed on the real WWII battlefields in the Russian Arctic.

Sweden´s No 1 MIA

Not long ago I blogged about Sweden´s most famous MIA, Raoul Wallenberg. I was then not aware of the latest book about him, The Envoy by Alex Kershaw. If you have the slightest interest in Wallenberg, read it!

Here´s why: its up to date, very disturbing, very well written and also inspiring. If you ever have a hard time, stop and ponder what happened to Raoul Wallenberg, and more specifically how he was let down.

I have a stack of books I want to review but will be short of time till I don´t know when. So instead of reviewing books only this fall, I will instead write very short reviews. Thus I will only add that not only is this book a great read and important for what it says about Wallenberg and the late efforts to find him, it also vividly describes events in Budapest like Otto Skorzeny´s Operation Panzerfaust.