Ss Panzer Battalion

January 1940...the coldest winter within living memory and the phoney war still paralyses the Western front, but at the Adolf Hitler Kaserne a new battalion of SS troops train for a mission so secret that it is known only by its Wehrmacht code name, Zero. The Vulture - Major Horst Geier - is the only man who knows that the objective is the key Belgian fortress guarding the junction of the River Meuse and the Albert Canal - the most impregnable fort in Europe, which must be taken if Hitler's SS Panzer troops are to turn the flank of the Maginot Line.