Where Eagles Dare

Name: Where Eagles Dare
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Author: Alistair MacLean
ISBN: 9780007362004

Author: Alistair MacLean

Narrator: Alun Armstrong

Abridged: 2 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 06/03/2010

Categories: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Classic, Historical Fiction, Military Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

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…

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer

A momentous read for me in many respects. The most famous book of my favorite author as a young teenager; I was given a signed first edition (signed not just by the author but by two of the actors in the film whose screenplay the author wrote before the novel) by my closest friends as a 50th birthda......more

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache

Where Eagles Dare was the first Alistair Maclean book I ever read in High School. One of my buddies loaned me a copy, and I (figuratively) inhaled it. (I think I read it in a day or two.) It really is quite a fast read. This is an action, adventure, espionage, thriller set during World War II, that......more

Goodreads review by Bill

When I was at school, way back in the 1970s, I used to read a lot of Alistair MacLean novels as I'm sure many teenage boys did. Back then the shelves of my local WH Smith was full of his books, many with tie in covers from the film versions. MacLean was not only a hugely successful author, but his n......more

Goodreads review by Melindam

“Why didn't you shoot him?” “I'm a changed man, boss.” Schaffer sighed. “Something splendid has just come into my life.” “Besides, you didn't have a chance.” “Besides, as you say, I didn't have a chance.” This used to be a favourite book of mine in my teens. I was totally riveted by it. I found it cheek......more