The year is 1944. The citadel that is the European Reich is now being attacked and poked at from all sides, as the allies both in the West and the East have mustered their full forces to the offensive. The initiative has clearly switched. The Red Army is on the offensive in Southern Russia, where a big battle for the city of Kharkov is about to take place. Meanwhile, Manstein makes his defensive moves across the line as he plans to retire to the Dnieper Defensive Line the Todt organization is frantically building. In Northwestern Europe and the Northern Atlantic, the Allied return to the English homeland is at hand. The Allied fleets sail forth with troops and ships, while the Kriegsmarine sorties for one last battle to try and stop the Allied tide threatening to engulf their British conquest. In Spain, the Allies have established a firm foothold in Portugal as they now plan to expand outward and liberate Spain and reclaim Gibraltar. Heavy battles will unfold for mastery in the Iberian Peninsula. In the Pacific, the Japanese continue to reel back in disaster as the large naval battle of Johnston Island is at hand. Grand Admiral Yamamoto will again attempt to stop the American juggernaut, but hope is slim for the Imperial Navy and the Japanese base in the Pacific middle of nowhere. And through it all, heroes fight to survive and win. Men like tanker Erich Walder, German infantryman Henrich Severloh, ace pilot Gaston Lamirande fighting Adolf Galland, or else the brave and smart Generals planning it all like Erich von Manstein, Georgi Zhukov, and Heinz Guderian. This is the story of the Second World War.