Tapani Löfvingin seikkailut
By Kyösti Wilkuna
Cover: Honka lumessa (Pine in Snow) by Pekka Halonen (1865-1933) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Born in Narva on Christmas Eve 1689, Tapani Löfving tells his own life: a failed start as a merchant's apprentice, then soldiering, capture, escapes and partisan raids against the Russian occupiers of Finland during the Great Northern War. Wilkuna based this brisk first-person adventure on a real partisan of the Great Wrath. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.