Anthony F. Upton is a professor of Nordic history. He worked in University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He has published about the first decennies 1918–1944 of the Finnish independency. He received the Hon. D. from the University of Helsinki

University of Helsinki

The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but was founded in the city of Turku in 1640 as The Royal Academy of Turku, at that time part of the Swedish Empire. It is the oldest and largest university in Finland with the widest range of disciplines available...

 on 2 June 2000.

He is best known for sinking the so called "Driftwood theory" of Finnish non-involvement in Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a front., the largest invasion in the history of warfare...

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Works

• A Short History of Finland, 1998, 209 p.
• Europe 1600-1789, 2001. 437 p.
• The Finnish Revolution 1917-1918, 1980, 608 p.
• Finland in Crisis, 1940–1941, 1964, 318 p.
• Finland, 1939–1940, 1974, 174 p.
• Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1998, 281 p.