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    Where Eagles Dare
    Where Eagles Dare
    Where Eagles Dare
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    Where Eagles Dare

    Written by Alistair MacLean

    Narrated by Alun Armstrong

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    A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense.

    Winter 1943, and US General Carnaby has been captured by the Nazis. He is being held in a fortress high in the Bavarian Alps. headquarters of the German Secret Service, and in his head are plans for the invasion of Normandy.
     
    A special team of British commandos, a US Army ranger and a female secret agent is hurriedly assembled. Their mission: parachute into the area, break in to the alpine Castle, and rescue General Carnaby before the Germans can interrogate him.
     
    But unknown to all, there is another mission, and someone in the group is a traitor…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 3, 2010
    ISBN9780007362004
    Author

    Alistair MacLean

    Alistair MacLean, the son of a minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read English at Glasgow University and became a teacher. Two and a half years spent aboard a wartime cruiser gave him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.

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    • 5/5
      A great World War II adventure, espionage mystery, with many twists and turns
    • 4/5
      A group of allied soldiers are dropped by parachute into Germany in order to find a way inside Schloss Adler (the castle of the eagle), the combined headquarters of the German Secret Service and the Gestapo. They have to rescue Lieutenant General Carnaby, an American general who is the overall co-ordinator for Operation Overlord, the Second Front, before he talks.Someone though is sabotaging their efforts; can a member of the six British and one American Special Forces team be a traitor? The commanding officer, Smith, has brought a woman with him too, a fact unknown to the other team members. Added to that are the problems of the elite Alpenkorps being stationed at the foot of the mountain and the Castle, built on the side of the mountain, being only accessible by cable car.This book was an extremely enjoyable read, with the twists and turns and plot loops, focussing on one then another as the guilty party. With the finale as exciting and explosive as one could wish for.Although I already knew the story from watching the movie countless times (staring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood), it was definitely well worth reading the original, especially for the ironic wit of Schaffer and Smith’s exchanges.All in all, a World War II thriller, action packed and full of suspense, which I have come to expect from MacLean’s writing. I wasn’t disappointed at all.
    • 4/5
      This is one of my favourite films and fair play to whoever was responsible for the adaptation as i can se very little difference between the two which suggests the director of the film has done his job. Im not a massive fiction fan but this is a good read, however the good guys and the bad are more obvious in the book and as a result the film has the edge for me as Richhard Burton could have been the bad guy for at least 2/3 of the film until he gets what he came for namely the names of all the nazi double agentts in the UK
    • 5/5
      Gripping story. Mc Clean at his best. This is an abridged version. In the last couple of chapters, there were a few places where I was slightly lost for a moment and wondered what I had missed. I loved the narrator and the music used for dramatic effect.
    • 5/5
      I'm about to review a modern techno-thriller and while researching the author something jogged my 14 year old self's memory of Alistair McLean.

      I gobbled his books in high school - I remember when The Eagle Has Landed was all the big rage and I read it, sure, like everyone else, but Alistair had me hooked and I ploughed through his entire oeuvre (or at least as much as our high school library budget allowed) during one year.

      Then I forgot all about him until two days ago. I suppose that will be another author that my adult self will have to ignore if I want to keep my five star memories intact.

    • 2/5
      I loved this story when I was growing up - I have clearer memories of the plot points here than in almost any other book from that period of my life, though how much of that can be attributed to the novel rather than the movie is hard to say. Sadly, returning to the book itself has not been as enjoyable experience. MacLean's writing is poor in so many places - his prose needed a better editor to remove repeated phrases, and some of the structures he employs are as bad as those that I used as a teenager writing my own fiction.
    • 4/5
      Along with Guns of Navarone and, perhaps, The Secret Ways, this is probably MacLean's best. A commando raid on a Nazi schloss during World War II.
    • 4/5
      This was my absolute favorite book as a kid ... at least until I discovered Robert Ludlum. I even recall making a diorama of a scene to go with a book report I wrote in 6th grade. Seriously. And I do love the movie, too. But I haven't seen the movie in probably 15 years and it's been even longer since I read the book, so I decided to give it a go. I still love the book. That said, I can't say that certain elements have aged well. The writing seems a bit stilted now and the action is far less vivid than in modern works by authors like Eisler, Child, or Flynn. Much of the dialogue seems highly realistic, but nevertheless entertaining. But the plot twists are still fun. If you haven't read this book, do yourself a favor and give it a try.