Where Eagles Dare

Alistair MacLean

Nov 2009 · Sold by HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed 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...

Ratings and reviews

I have watch the movie so many time it's a classic war movie shame about sound track music it 's creepy and dark like a horrer movie also never read the book and listen to tape it a good movie but not favourite movie that will be jaws by Peter Benchley

Read this many years ago; delightful to read again. So many twists and turns. Master storyteller.

As good a read now as it was thirty-odd years ago when I was gripped by it so much I read it in one sitting.....more than highly recommended

About the author

Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots 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 schoolmaster. The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser were to give 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. He died in 1987.