The time is December 1944. The place: the Western Front. The Allied armies are on the march, relentlessly driving the Nazis back to the German border. In a desperate attempt to snatch victory from certain defeat, Adolf Hitler rolls the dice and orders a surprise counterattack against the Americans in the Belgian Ardennes. His ace in the hole is Major Klaus Muller, Germany's best panzer commander, whose mission is to break through the enemy lines and alter the course of the war. U.S. Army intelligence expert Colonel Jack Howard is dispatched to the front to determine the purpose of Hitler's bold strategy. Both he and Muller are intensely patriotic-men of duty, courage and honor. Incredibly, they soon find themselves facing each other at the front lines. Yet between them is much more than a battlefield of death and destruction. Both share the adoration of a beautiful French woman, a fiancee to one, in love with the other. But there is a dark secret attached to her, one that she wants neither man to know."