- British, Fiction, Fiction in English, Historical Fiction
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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- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Alistair MacLean, Norah Woollard
- First published
- June 12, 1976
- Pages
- 258
- Publisher
- Octopus Books, Collins, Söderström
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- Polish, fin, English
- ISBN
- 9780449230114
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“The vibrating clangour from the four great piston engines set teeth on edge and made an intolerable assault on cringing eardrums.”
Alistair MacLean was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of a minister. He spent much of his childhood in Daviot, Scotland. His native language was Scottish Gaelic. During World War II he served with the Royal Navy and was released in 1946. After the war, he studied English at the University of Glasgow, and he began writing short stories for extra income. He graduated in 1953 and became a a school teacher in Rutherglen. In 1954 he won a fiction competition and Collins Publishing asked him for a novel. He submitted HMS Ulysses, drawn from his own war experiences, and it was published in 1955. It was very successful and MacLean became a full-time writer. In the 1960s, he published two novels un
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