Where Eagles Dare
by Alistair MacLean, Norah Woollard · first published 1967
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One winter night, seven men and a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their objective: an apparently inaccessible castle, headquarters of the Gestapo. Their mission: to rescue a crashed American general before the Nazi interrogators can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans.
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…read that in 19XX, love the character X doing something with Y". Reading the title of the post was a pang of nostalgia, I can still remember him telling me about Ice Station Zebra, Night Without End, Where Eagles Dare, Guns of Navarone, Force 10 from Navarone. I miss him. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair_MacLean
on ““Alister Maclin” can break Bitcoin on command” ↗…in public, and make even small grammatical corrections (I miss one, every now and then, though). I also like reading. I devour books; usually escapist fiction. The first non-child book I ever read was Where Eagles Dare, by Alistair MacLean. I started reading because I lived in Africa, and the TV sucked.
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