Cette série plonge dans la période turbulente précédant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, dépeignant avec maestria la complexité des relations humaines face à un conflit imminent. Suivez les personnages alors qu'ils naviguent entre les tensions politiques et les luttes personnelles, expérimentant une description vivante des difficultés de l'époque. Les récits mêlent habilement l'exactitude historique à la profondeur émotionnelle, capturant l'essence d'un monde au bord de la transformation. C'est une lecture captivante pour les amateurs de fiction historique et de drames centrés sur les personnages.
1935: Harry Jardine is a soldier of fortune. Forced to flee Hamburg after helping Jews escape Nazi Germany, he is recruited to smuggle guns from Rumania into Abyssinia, under threat of Italian invasion. But seeing how ill-equipped the Ethiopians are to face the Italian army, can Jardine just walk away?
Having returned from Abyssinia, soldier of fortune Cal Jardine is convinced to travel to Barcelona and help facilitate rival athletic games to the Berlin Olympics. But now he finds himself in Spain as the first shots of civil war ring out; and the demands of friendship, love, and politics embroil Jardine once again in foreign war.
As Hitler sets his sights on the Sudetenland, not everyone in Britain is willing to appease him. Convinced that the Fuehrer's land-hunger is insatiable, the head of the SIS recruits Cal Jardine to help him prove zechoslovakia is threatened with invasion.