1. Russia has joined the battle against Hitler and Hans Von Hammer, the finest pilot Germany has ever known, is now a 46-year-old man with plenty of enemies in the Nazi regime. He wishes to live out his live within the solitary confines of his family estate in Bavaria, hoping against hope that he never has to step into the cockpit of a fighter plane again...
That, of course, is not meant to be.
2. The two-front war in Europe and Russia stretches Hitler and his "Thousand Year Reich" to the breaking point. Hans Von Hammer, the finest pilot Germany has ever known, has only one concern: how many of his young men can he keep alive before the war comes to a fiery conclusion?