Shaun Stafford

Lebensraum 1 Shaun Stafford

It is the year 2000, and the world is on the brink of a war between its two superpowers - the Greater German Reich and the United States of America. Reichsführer-SS Schaemmel, disabled after a terrorist attack which destroyed Germania - the Greater German Reich's former capital - finds himself as the most powerful man in Germany, and must contemplate following the incapacitated Führer's wishes to create Lebensraum for the German Volk by catapulting the Fatherland into a war to end all wars. Major Ben Urbanowicz, US Army helicopter pilot, finds himself as the catalyst that could spark off the war when he is captured by the Germans after the Kiowa reconnaissance helicopter he is flying is shot down over the Bering Strait, further inflaming the diplomatic tension between the US and Germany. Captain Andy Dean of the United States Army Special Forces - the Green Berets - is tasked with leading an operational detachment behind enemy lines to sabotage one of three secret German Militärflugplätze in Eastern Siberia, located dangerously close to Alaska. SS-Hauptsturmführer Weber, of the Hauptamt Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS - the Reichsführer's personal staff - has been tasked with hunting down members of the mythical Fourth Reich, a group of treacherous, high-ranking SS officers. His search for traitors will take him from the Reich's burgeoning new capital, Munich, to the frozen, unforgiving tundra of Siberia. Along the way, he will seek the help of Ellen Brauchitsch, a former Gestapo officer with a chequered history. In Washington, incumbent president David Vermont, psychologically traumatized by the events of the last few years, faces a leadership challenge from billionaire businessman Donald Trump, who is keen to lead America to victory. As the world drifts closer to war, these are the people who may decide the fates of Germany and America.