Onni Palaste

In the Winter War, Bovellan fought in Colonel Hjalmar Siilasvuo's troops.

He led many successful patrols to Soviet territory and was awarded the Iron Cross.

He worked as director of the Vuokatti sports academy and also met his wife Kerttu Klemetti.

Onni Palaste started writing factual, but slightly dramatised novels about the Winter War in 1967.

He has also written a three-novel mini-series about Simo Hurtta, a Swedish tax official during the 17th-18th century Greater Wrath.