Kidnapping Hitler

After the D-Day Invasion, Allied troops head across France and into Germany. Brigadier Wilson, architect of Operation Hawkwind, is in Normandy with General Montgomery’s army. He has a plan to kidnap Hitler and shorten the war – plus give Hawkwind a higher status and himself a higher rank. But his six Hawkwind Heroes are scattered over the theatre of war. USAAF airman Curtis Olson is flying missions into Germany, RAF pilot Hartley-Penrose flies reconnaissance sorties for the invading troops, British Army Sergeant Haines is back with the Royal Engineers building pontoon bridges, and SOE secret agent Eric Baker is in prison for misconduct. And the two French Resistance fighters, Claude and Marie-Claire are heading for Paris to help in its liberation.
After much searching, Wilson finally contacts them all just before the invasion of Berlin by the Russians. Except for Olson who has survived his bomber’s destruction and hides out in the outskirts of Berlin where he shares a bombed out flat with a German girl. Wilson orders them to sneak into Berlin and find Hitler’s bunker where he controls the war from deep underground. And smuggle him out before the Russians take over the city. This act, they are told, will immediately end the war. But Berlin is in its death throes and they have to avoid both Russian and German forces as well as surviving in a society in collapse. Independently, they infiltrate the complex of the Nazi HQ in the centre of Berlin, in order to gather information about Hitler’s secret bunker.
Olson, meanwhile, as an ally of the invading Russians, joins them as they blast their way into the centre of Berlin. Acting as an interpreter, he is taken to a cellar where his five captured Hawkwind buddies are prisoner. Free, they meet up with their old German assassin friend, Karl Kruger, who is on his mission to try and assassinate Hitler a second time. Together, after numerous dangerous attempts to find Hitler’s Fuhrerbunker, they face even greater dangers getting inside it, and where they have to confront the devil himself - Adolf Hitler. But their mission ends in a way they could not possibly imagine.