There's a book out now about how Eisenhower's broad front strategy prolonged the war. I haven't read it, but what I know of Monty and his hoarding of supplies for his set piece battle, it makes sense that the war was prolonged b/c it placed brakes on Patton and other American armies advancing on Germany. The book is Daniel Colley's The Folly of Generals: How Eisenhower's Broad Front Strategy Lengthened World War II. Without having read it, I think the author's thesis has a foundation of troof. (I've read Ike's Crusade in Europe, both of Brad's bibliographies, Patton's War As I Remember It). I haven't read Monty's book yet.