Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1539532 in Books
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover

Synopsis
A Radio 2 dramatization of the World War II novel which in 1961 was made into a major film. A team which has been assembled to destroy large naval guns at the Greek fortress of Navarone, to facilitate a planned invasion, has to remain one step ahead of the Germans as it moves in on its objective.

Customer Reviews

Top quality entertainment
The book is great - fast paced, full of classic flawed characters. An excellent retreat into one of the fictionally less-visited spheres of the Second World War, and a reminder of the hardships endured by many of the Greek Islands and Malta, during WW2.

Maclean's best!
Reviews on books are often far too high now days but I think that giving The Guns of Navarone 5 stars totally justifies this fine piece of writing. It has all the key factors to Maclean's books action, tension and mystery. What makes it better than his other classics such as Ice station zebra and where Eagles dare is the tremendous characters.

Synopsis
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, skilled 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...