"Hot Snow" - this famous novel entered the golden fund of military prose, the film of the same name became an unconditional classic of the genre, and the phrase "The main thing is to knock out their tanks!" - winged. December 1942, when Manstein's tanks tried to break through to the aid of the 6th Army, surrounded in Stalingrad, is rightfully considered the turning point of the war: if this counterattack was crowned with success, Paulus escaped from the "cauldron" - and the whole history of World War II could go according to a completely different scenario...