The Eighth Army tenses itself for the Alamein offensive – drive the Germans from North Africa.  Success depends on starving the Panzers of the Afrika Korps of fuel.   Lieutenant-Colonel George Hockold must destroy Rommel’s vast fuel reserves stored at the port of Qabar if the Eighth Army is to succeed in the Alamein offensive. Time is desperately running out, resources are scant and the commando unit Hockold must lead is a rag-tag band of misfits scraped from the dregs of the British Army. They must attack Qabar. The orders are clear…Take or destroy.