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Title: Gimmicky plot, and historically a real stretch.
Review: The characters of York, Patton, Marshall, Halsey, and MacArthur were gimmicky. Patton and York were based on the interpretations of George C. Scott and Gary Cooper not the real thing. Even some of the lines are straight from the movies.As for the plot itself, not likely. The Soviets and the British were by no means done in '41. The Germans were caught. If they fight through the winter, then you get what actually happened. If they stop and wait, the Russians get the time they need to regroup. The winter helped beat the Wehrmact, but the Russians did the lions share on their own. I give Rommel, Patton, Montgomery, and the other generals their due, but the best mind in that war was Zhukov. The Soviets would have been fine without the winter or the United States.This is sentimental fiction, not historical, but if you're willing to susepend your disbelief, not a bad way to spend a couple of hours.
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