It is 1944 and a shattered world faces a fifth year of total war. Hitler’s ambition has spread across continents like a polluted tidal wave, swallowing whole nations in a deluge of terror and brutality - but now the tide is about to turn. This year the Allies will launch Overlord, a massive combined arms operation to take back occupied Europe and wipe the Nazi stain from the face of the earth, forever.
But as the free forces prepare to topple one tyrant, it seems that another has been waiting
to seize power. Allied intelligence recently discovered that a Bavarian aristocrat known as ‘the Baron’ has been using his wealth to levy a private army and assemble a team of top military scientists. It is believed that he is developing a secret weapon of unprecedented destructive power - unfortunately his progress, intentions and whereabouts are a mystery.
With resources focused single-mindedly on D-Day, only a small sub-section of the allied secret service has been assigned to this new threat. Under the command of Brigadier Robert Berkley, the Secret Allied Brigade Reconnaissance Expedition (SABRE) has recruited elite agents from Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union. Their first mission: to infiltrate one of the Baron’s strongholds, discover the extent of his power and what he plans to do with it.
But as the free forces prepare to topple one tyrant, it seems that another has been waiting
to seize power. Allied intelligence recently discovered that a Bavarian aristocrat known as ‘the Baron’ has been using his wealth to levy a private army and assemble a team of top military scientists. It is believed that he is developing a secret weapon of unprecedented destructive power - unfortunately his progress, intentions and whereabouts are a mystery.
With resources focused single-mindedly on D-Day, only a small sub-section of the allied secret service has been assigned to this new threat. Under the command of Brigadier Robert Berkley, the Secret Allied Brigade Reconnaissance Expedition (SABRE) has recruited elite agents from Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union. Their first mission: to infiltrate one of the Baron’s strongholds, discover the extent of his power and what he plans to do with it.
SABRE is made up of three key agents: Major Harris, Captain Link and Nikolai Volkov. Click on their images below to learn more about these characters:
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