Threatened on all sides, a desperate Adolph Hitler lashes out with an impossible order: kidnap Winston Churchill --- or kill him. A disgraced war hero receives the suicidal mission --- to take his commandos into the heart of England.

In the quiet seaside village of Studley Constable, a beautiful widow and a cultured IRA assassin set the groundwork for the ultimate act of treachery. On November 6, 1943, Berlin gets the coded message: "THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!"