At the end of 1943, Sven and his penal tank regiment end up on the Western Front, in Italy. Fate destined them to defend the besieged monastery on the sacred mountain of Monte Cassino. They are opposed by superior allied forces. A real hell breaks loose in a holy place, and surviving in it is an almost impossible task. What will happen to the desperate German penal prisoners and will the unique relics of the monastery survive the frantic Anglo-American bombing - this is the story of another best-selling novel by the famous front-line writer S. Hassell...