Germany was on the verge of defeat. To her starving civilians and disheartened soldiers, it seemed as if all hope were dead. To Roosevelt's victorious 'Butchers' it looked as if the moment of revenge had came at last.

But in the terrible winter of 1944 the Führer had a last, devastating card to play: a new offensive in the west, through the mountain passes and snow-heavy forests of the Ardennes. The objective: the bridge over the Meuse at Huy. The men to take it: Battle Group Wotan, last survivors of Hitler's hated SS, led by the renowned Colonel von Dodenburg. They were the toughest troops in Europe, and they had only one chance left if they were to save the Fatherland and their own skins...