January 1940. The Western Front is paralyzed, and the newly created SS special battalion "Wotan" is sent to the most difficult exercises in the history of the German army. The stormtroopers are preparing to carry out a mission so secret that only its code name is known - “Zero”. Leo Kessler is the pseudonym of the popular British writer Charles Whiting (1926-2007), author of more than 200 action-packed war novels. “Wotan Battalion” is the first book in a series of novels about the special battalion “Wotan”, the action of which takes place against the backdrop of military operations and special operations of the Second World War.