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n the spring of 1943, Hitler and Mussolini were near the apex of their powers.  During the same spring, Will, a lumberjack and amateur baseball player, falls in love with Dena, a beautiful and head-strong co-ed.  While a world war rages, their dreams are threatened, first by classism when Will is declared “not good enough” to be a suitor for Dena’s hand.  Meanwhile, a group of powerful businessmen have designs to exploit his extraordinary baseball skills for their financial gain until the Ku Klux Klan intervenes. 

Will finds refuge in the US Army’s 366^th Infantry Regiment and the famed Buffalo Soldiers of the 92^nd Infantry Division fighting Hitler’s Wehrmacht in Italy.  He bonds with three members of his infantry platoon.  Their leader called them the Four Musketeers.  Their generation has been called America’s greatest.   

Together, the friends become a tight-knit family, at times fighting among themselves, and at other times, uniting to take on all-comers – other American servicemen, perverse use of courts-martial, and the Wehrmacht.  They pool their skills to make the best of army life while continuously evolving their own unique reasons why they should fight the Germans.  They meet and embrace Italian partisans in their homes and side by side on the battlefield against the Germans. 

In the face of hardships and death, Will is challenged with finding purpose for his life. During Italy’s harsh Tuscany winter in the middle of a war, can Will find his path to the life he and Dena dreamed?

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