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    Guns of Navarone
    Guns of Navarone
    Guns of Navarone
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    Guns of Navarone

    Written by Alistair MacLean

    Narrated by Bob Peck

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    About this audiobook

    The Guns of Navarone and its three sequels, in which the same characters are sent on other wartime missions, together in one volume for the first time to mark the 50th anniversary of the original book .

    THE GUNS OF NAVARONE
    Mallory, Miller and Andrea are united into a lethally effective team. Their mission: to silence the impregnable guns set in the tall cliffs of Navarone. On their success or failure rests one of the most critical offensives of the Second World War.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 3, 2010
    ISBN9780007361977
    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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    • 4/5
      I loved the book. Also, it's very rare for me to think a movie is even better, but I did in this case.
    • 4/5
      The novels involves an Allied commando raid against a fortress off Turkey. A team of five men led by Captain Keith Mallory of New Zealand and including the Greek resistance fighter Andreas and an American demolitions expert Corporal Dusty Miller must climb a sheer cliff of 400 feet considered unclimbable, infiltrate a Nazi fortress and sabotage her guns to allow through a British fleet. At stake are the lives of 1,200 British soldiers stranded on an island. The novel takes place in the course of three days during World War II. I've been working my way through a list of suspense novel recommendations, and of the twelve I've read so far, I liked this one the most. I have a friend who calls the thriller genre "dicklit" and goodness, it's true that too many of this sort of novel suffer from testosterone toxicity. Of those dozen novels, even though this is the one without one female character and this is the only real war novel, ironically this is the one without the macho posturing, which is something I found refreshing. Maybe that's because MacLean as a World War II veteran has known war. Unlike the protagonists in novels I read by Lee Child, Vince Flynn and Ted Bell, his commandos come across as human. They all feel fear. The young lieutenant Andy Stevens particularly struggles with his fear of fear that could prove crippling or shaming. They don't revel in violence--or at least the good guys in this novel don't. They try to avoid taking life if they can, and regret it when they can't. They use their heads not just their fists. Which makes these characters for me both more sympathetic and more heroic than the cool he-man counterparts in the genre I've read so far. This is also well-crafted and well-written. Not only does MacLean have a fairly strong prose style, he understands that the principle of a good suspense plot is "and then it got worse." It's a suspenseful novel that's a quick read, a real page turner. If I don't rate this higher, it's that in the end this doesn't make me want to pick up more of MacLean, or keep this novel on my bookshelves. But this is a good read, and if you're drawn to military fiction, this is certainly a well-done example of that genre.
    • 5/5
      St. Barts 2013 # 10 - How can you not love Alistair MacLean?? Good gripping yarn, full of suspense. The task at hand is impossible to begin with and then every possible thing goes wrong......yet, will they prevail? Not sure why i did not go for 5 stars, but a little something is holding me back.....possibly the implausibilty of these beaten guys truly having the strength to maneuver and carry the volume of equipment needed throughout this adventure to accomplish their mission. Ok, maybe i'm too much of a realist......but who cares....I loved it and highly recommend to all lovers of adventure thrillers. This is my second MacLean and I have every other one he wrote on the shelf....I can't wait!
    • 4/5
      A very enjoyable war/adventure story based in WW2. It had quite a bit of action and the pace was brisk.