Recounts events leading up to and surrounding the May 1941 destruction of the British battle cruiser Hood by the German battleship Bismarck, soon followed by the sinking of the German ship by British forces.
Tells the story of PQ17, a World War II convoy carrying tanks, airplanes, and munitions from England, Canada, and the United States to the Soviet Union in 1942, and the efforts by German forces to stop them.
Howard DeMallie, a young American pilot, and his crew are forced to bail out of their B-17 airplane over Holland. He is helped by the Dutch underground and imprisoned in a German prisoner of war camp.