SS Assault Regiment Wotan had been sent to join the Desert Rats, their objective to liberate the Egyptian army and to wrest the control of Alexandria from the British forces. But the men of Wotan found that Rommel didn't want them, and as they set off into the unmapped waste of the desert, they realised that something about this mission was wrong.

SS Assault Regiment Wotan had been sent to join the Desert Rats, their objective to liberate the Egyptian army and to wrest the control of Alexandria from the British forces. But the men of Wotan found that Rommel didn't want them, and as they set off into the unmapped waste of the desert, they realised that something about this mission was wrong - very wrong indeed. One thousand kilometres of uncharted desert lay before them: a blazing, barren, limitless hell, just sand and sun and sky - the only living creatures an enemy lying in wait for them, silent and unseen...