Five great war stories

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Alastair MacLean has long been acknowledged the leading writer of adventure stories throughout the world. Here for the first time are five of his best known war stories, together with an amusing and informative introduction by the author.
H.M.S. ULYSSES is the book that made MacLean's reputation. The leading critic of the time, reviewing this story of a perilous convoy to Russia through the northern seas, called it 'one of the most remarkable stories of the sea ever written'.
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE sees a small party of dedicated commandos, fishermen and patriots attempt to save 1200 British soldiers, marooned on a small island off the Turkish coast, from death by the bombardment of the great German guns sited on Navarone.
SOUTH BY JAVA HEAD takes place amid the troubled waters of the Java sea, and deals with the grim aftermath of Singapore's capture by the Japanese.
FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE reintroduces the leading characters of THE GUNS OF NAVARONE. They now have the daunting... Tovább

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Alastair MacLean has long been acknowledged the leading writer of adventure stories throughout the world. Here for the first time are five of his best known war stories, together with an amusing and informative introduction by the author.
H.M.S. ULYSSES is the book that made MacLean's reputation. The leading critic of the time, reviewing this story of a perilous convoy to Russia through the northern seas, called it 'one of the most remarkable stories of the sea ever written'.
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE sees a small party of dedicated commandos, fishermen and patriots attempt to save 1200 British soldiers, marooned on a small island off the Turkish coast, from death by the bombardment of the great German guns sited on Navarone.
SOUTH BY JAVA HEAD takes place amid the troubled waters of the Java sea, and deals with the grim aftermath of Singapore's capture by the Japanese.
FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE reintroduces the leading characters of THE GUNS OF NAVARONE. They now have the daunting task of convincing the Germans that a major Allied assault on Yugoslavia is pending in order to draw off troops from the Italian front. As one critic wrote: 'treachery, double-bluff and double-cross a terrific dam-busting climax'.
WHERE EAGLES DARE tells of seven men and a girl who are parachuted on to a mountainside in wartime Germany to rescue an important American general from a seemingly inaccessible castle.
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