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The surviving commandos of "force 10 from Navarone" are sent on operation storm force, a perilous mission through the Pyrenees to disable the greatest threat to the success of the d-day landings, the "werewolf" u-boats.
Author : Sam Llewellyn
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 1997-07
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 9780786210688
The surviving commandos of "force 10 from Navarone" are sent on operation storm force, a perilous mission through the Pyrenees to disable the greatest threat to the success of the d-day landings, the "werewolf" u-boats.
Author : Alistair MacLean
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007438338
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 .
Author : Alistair MacLean
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007289219
The classic tale of adventure and death on a mysterious Arctic island, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
Author : Alistair MacLean
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 2012-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780848833275
First published in Great Britain by Collins in 1957.
Author : Steven Hartov
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 148805911X
A spellbinding novel of World War II based on the little-known history of the X Troop—a team of European Jews who escaped the Continent only to join the British Army and return home to exact their revenge on Hitler’s military. A lone soldier wearing a German uniform stumbles into a British military camp in the North African desert with an incredible story to tell. He is the only survivor of an undercover operation meant to infiltrate a Nazi base, trading on the soldiers’ perfect fluency in German. However, this man is not British-born but instead a German Jew seeking revenge for the deaths of his family back home in Berlin. As the Allies advance into Europe, the young lieutenant is brought to recover in Sicily. There he is recruited by a British major to join the newly formed X Troop, a commando unit composed of German and Austrian Jews training for a top secret mission at a nearby camp in the Sicilian hills. They are all “lost boys,” driven not by patriotism but by vengeance. Drawing on meticulous research into this unique group of soldiers, The Last of the Seven is a lyrical, propulsive historical novel perfect for readers of Mark Sullivan, Robert Harris and Alan Furst.
Author : Alistair MacLean
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Alps, Austrian (Austria)
ISBN :
A team of British Special Forces commandos parachutes into the high peaks of the Austrian Alps with the mission of stealing into an invulnerable alpine castle, accessible only by aerial gondola, the headquarters of Nazi intelligence. Supposedly sent in to rescue one of their own, their real mission turns out to be a lot more complicated, and the tension climbs as team members start to die off, one by one.
Author : Damien Lewis
Publisher :
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 9781528843096
"In the hard-fought winter of 1944 the Allies advanced northwards through Italy, but stalled on the fearsome mountainous defences of the Gothic Line. Two men were parachuted in, in an effort to break the deadlock. Their mission: to penetrate deep into enemy territory and lay waste to the Germans' impregnable headquarters. At the eleventh hour mission commanders radioed for David 'The Mad Piper' Kilpatrick to be flown in, resplendent in his tartan kilt. They wanted this fearless war hero to lead the assault, piping Highland Laddie as he went - so leaving an indelible British signature to deter Nazi reprisals. As the column of raiders formed up, there was shocking news. High command radioed through an order to stand down, having assessed the chances of success at little more than zero. But in defiance of orders, they were going in. This book tells the incredible story." -- Publisher's description.
Author : Alistair MacLean
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2008
Category : War stories
ISBN : 9780007284221
Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast, waiting to die. Twelve hundred lives in jeopardy, lives that could be saved if only the guns could be silenced. The guns of Navarone, vigilant, savage and catastrophically accurate. Navarone itself, grim bastion of narrow straits manned by a mixed garrison of Germans and Italians, an apparently impregnable iron fortress. To Captain Keith Mallory, skllled saboteur, trained mountaineer, fell the task of leading the small party detailed to scale the vast, impossible precipice of Navarone and to blow up the guns. The Guns of Navarone is the story of that mission, the tale of a calculated risk taken in the time of war...In Force 10 from Navarone, the heroic survivors have no time to rest on their laurels. Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, Keith Mallory, Andrea and Dusty Miller are parachuting into war-torn Yugoslavia to rescue a division of Partisans ... and to fulfil a secret mission, so deadly that it must be hidden from their own allies.In Storm Force from Navarone, Mallory, Miller and Andrea are sent on a perilous mission through the Pyrenees to disable the greatest threat to the success of the D-Day landings - the Werewolf U-boats. With less than six days to locate the submarines and destroy them, and communications insecure, they must operate outside normal channels, cut off from any back-up.In Thunderbolt from Navarone, they are summoned to Naval HQ and told to reconnoitre the reek island of Kynthos, determine the German development of the lethal and experimental A3 rockety and destroy any facilities. It seems like a guaranteed suicide mission, but if anyone can pull off the impossible, it's Mallory and his team...
Author : Alistair MacLean
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007289456
An undercover mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a defected scientist goes disastrously wrong – a classic early Cold War thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
Author : Ethel Lina White
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Wheel Spins is the novel about young and bright Iris Carr, who is on her way back to England after spending a holiday somewhere in the Balkans. After she is left alone by her friends, Iris catches the train for Trieste and finds company in Miss Froy, chatty elderly English woman. When she wakes up from a short nap, she discovers that her elderly travelling companion seems to have disappeared from the train. After her fellow passengers deny ever having seen the elderly lady, the young woman is on the verge of her nerves. She is helped by a young English traveler, and the two proceed to search the train for clues to the old woman's disappearance. Ethel Lina White (1876-1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel The Wheel Spins, on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes, was based.