France, August 1944. In this alternate history WW2 adventure, American and British forces struggle to trap and destroy the still-potent German armies defending Normandy. But the Allies face another formidable obstacle of their own making: a seething rivalry between generals leads to a high-level disregard for orders that puts the campaign in the Falaise Pocket at risk of devastating failure—or spectacular success. That campaign unfolds through the eyes of two American brothers—one an idealistic pilot, the other a fatalistic tanker—as they plunge headlong into the confusion and indiscriminant slaughter of war.

France, October 1944: Fort Driant may be a 19th century anachronism, but it proves itself an impregnable obstacle to Patton's forces as they fight to seize the city of Metz, a gateway to Germany. Another fortress—a Flying Fortress—may be the key to the fall of Fort Driant. The Moon brothers are in the thick of the battle as Tommy volunteers for Operation Aphrodite, a gambit that turns unmanned heavy bombers into radio-controlled flying bombs of enormous power. But as zero hour for Aphrodite approaches, his brother Sean is trapped in the tunnels of Fort Driant, with the Germans just inches away behind armored doors. It's a race against time for the GIs to take Driant—or escape before the Flying Fortress falls.

Allies can be your worst enemies. 1945. The war may be going badly for the Third Reich, but they continue to develop “super weapons” to throw against the Allies. As the Moon brothers—fighter pilot Tommy and tanker Sean—struggle with the myths and realities of defeating the new technologies, a new threat their Soviet allies are intent on dominating Europe. But a game-changer still in the mountains of Bavaria, the Germans are preparing a super weapon against which there is no defense.

The Moon brothers know all about the fog of war—they’ve lived in its obscurity as the Allies fought their way across Europe. Now that Germany has been defeated, a new obscurity envelops them—a fog of peace—as the Western Allies clash with the Soviets in a series of provocations, blunders, bluffs, and deadly confrontations. To these battle-hardened veterans, the “peacetime” occupation of postwar Europe in 1945 feels little different than being at war.