Patton's War: Book Three in The World in Flames series Paperback – Big Book, 18 July 2021

Extremely well researched and thought out. The story line continues to draw me into an alternate reality that I must remind myself is fictional. Looking forward to Mr. Strain's next installment.

I have very much enjoyed the first two volumes in this series. Now the story is redundant. It is the same thing over and over. Allies "hanging by their fingernails" and unlimited Russian soldiers, tanks, weapons and fuel. The author states several times how the allied air force is devastating the rear areas of the Russians and valiant Poles have blowing up bridges and convoys and depots. Yet, the frontline Russian troops never run out of ammo, tanks, men or fuel. How can this be if the allies are pounding their supply line that runs all the way back to Russia?

I was looking in the "history" area of "books" and found this one,Given that it was listed under books/history I made an assumption-that it was really history-WRONG!!!!It is ALTERNATE history and a poor version of that.It is based on the concept that at the end of WW II the US/Britain war expanded (as Hitler had hoped earlier) into a war against the Soviet Union (or vice-versa, the Soviet Union's war had expanded into one against the "Allies".)The underlying concepts run into several major problems, not the least of which is that the "going home" syndrome was tremendous amongst US and British soldiers.There was considerable resistance against transfer to the Pacific and the war against Japan.The US and Britain had agreed upon a "Europe first" strategy, so the US turned to the Pacific and the destruction of Japan.There, the US was predominant, with the British playing a definite second fiddle (outside of the Southeast Asia area and General Slim).The Soviets faced the task of digesting the western border countries (from Poland south to Yugoslavia) and Stalin had "agreed" to Churchill's 85/15 proposal on Greece, so was not looking to move into nor support communist factions there.The Soviets, at Yalta, agreed to come into the Pacific war hoping to regain areas lost to Japan in earlier wars and gain several areas (especially large islands) to provide protection to their Siberian/Kamchatkan areas.Hence, Stalin had immediately begun the transfer of arms and men to the east and shortly began the invasion of Manchuria.The number of (and the arms mix of) the Soviet divisions facing west was considerably greater (not the least in numbers) than the combined forces of the Allies.Eisenhower had been very aware of the costs to "take" Berlin and had left that to the Soviets. He had also been very aware of the probability of bad results from chance encounters as the east and west met, hence his holding up at the Elbe.Hence, the underlying assumptions of this book are easily undone which makes the story implausable.