Väinö Linna wrote two massive works in which Finland is still found today: Only the continuation war epic Tuntematon sotilas (1954), whose film adaptation by Edvin Laine (1955) now as part of the public television Independence Day program as the live broadcast of the Reception at the president; then the trilogy Täällä Pohjantähden alla (1959, 1960, 1962), in which the history o...