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It was a twodisc release, the first cd being the film music, the second the film music for operation. His works include the guns of navarone, ice station zebra and where eagles dare all three were made into popular films. Every chapter leaves you and the characters hanging from cliff. Set against the background of the iranian revolution, it tells the true story of the rescue of paul chiapparone and bill gaylord from prison in tehran by a team of electronic data systems executives led. Green cloth boards, one bumped corner, spine bottom and top lightly bumped. Where eagles dare by maclean, collins 1967, first edition. Sellers first, year of publication ascending, year of publication descending. There is a splendid audacity about where eagles dare, in which a handful of british agents invade an impenetrable gestapo command post maclean offers a real dazzler of a thriller, with vivid action, fine set pieces of suspense and a virtuoso display. The characters in where eagles dare are paper thin. Where eagles dare not perch is a dark, compelling work of historical fiction in the strain of cormac mccarthy and other historical tales of revenge. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. He shows the unspeakable acts that warstricken people commit in pursuit of their own survival and opportunism.
He also published two novels under the pseudonym ian stuart. He takes some passing shots at arthouse directors, for the crime of boring earnestness, but then his last and no less awestruck film book was about tarkovsky. There is a splendid audacity about where eagles dare, in which a handful of british agents invade an impenetrable gestapo command postmaclean offers a real dazzler of a thriller, with vivid action, fine set pieces of suspense, and a virtuoso display of startling plot twists. Alistair maclean eight allied agents seven men and a woman parachute onto a mountainside behind enemy lines in wartime germany. The premise is that of a small group of allied there is a token america who, when i first watched the film, i assumed was added to appeal to the us market clint eastwood as a young man, commandos are tasked with rescuing a captured us general from an allbut. There is a splendid audacity about where eagles dare, in which a handful of british agents invade an impenetrable gestapo command post maclean offers a real dazzler of a thriller, with vivid action, fine set pieces of suspense and a virtuoso display of startling plot twists. The first edition of the novel was published in june 1st 1967, and was written by alistair maclean. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 290 pages and is available in hardcover format.
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