The Bullet That Should Have Killed the White Death

On March 6th, 1940, an explosive bullet tore away half of Simo Häyhä's face and left him for dead on a pile of frozen corpses — his own side moved on to find the living. Then someone saw his foot twitch. The man the world remembers as the White Death, generally regarded as the deadliest sniper of the Winter War, woke a week later on the day the war ended, to a face that was no longer his own. What came next — the surgeries, the silence, the sixty years — is the chapter the legend always skips.