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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This book was in a box of books a networking acquaintance gave me to read and then pass on to others. As far as I remember, I've not read other books from this author. For people of my age the phrase "the eagle has landed" is more associated with NASA and the space race than with World War II when this is set. Sadly, I don't know WWII history well enough to know if the event Higgins uses as his main plot point is something that really happened and Higgins had to fill in gaps with what he thought happened or if Higgins fabricated it all and wove a plot that included finding information that set him on the investigative path. I did recently hear about the practice of using body doubles for important figures so the final scene claiming that was who was in the countryside could have happened. I did see another reviewer mentioned that Liam Devlin shows up in other Higgins novels which makes me lean more toward the fictionalized side of the equation--though it is possible that Higgins takes real accounts of derring do and uses one character to tie the various real-life spies and their accomplishments or failures together. Sometimes the story was interesting, but other times it dragged or I had trouble making sense of it. There were a lot of characters and sometimes it was hard to remember who was who and who was on what side. It's a little alarming to realize that a good deed followed by a moment of not thinking is the only reason that the plot failed.
Roman ispirisan istinskim događajem iz Drugog svetskog rata i upadom nemačkih komandosa u Englesku u pokušaju da otmu Vin-stona Čerčila. Roman je poslužio kao osnova za snimanje čuvenog filma Otmica Čerčila sa ser Majkl Kejnom u glavnoj ulozi. Ingår i serienKurt Steiner (1) Liam Devlin (1) Ingår i förlagsserienDelfinserien (556) Lanterne (L 348) Ingår iHar bearbetningenÄr avkortad iReader's Digest Condensed Books: The Eagle Has Landed • Mother Knew Best • The Moneychangers • Kitten with Blue Eyes av Reader's Digest Der Adler ist gelandet. Bourgeon, Roger: Sieg über die Nacht. Baum, Vicki: Die goldenen Schuhe. Aldridge, James: Ein Pony für zwei. av Reader's Digest Prestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
Fiction.
Thriller.
HTML: New York Times Bestseller: An audacious Nazi plan to kidnap Winston Churchill threatens to tip the scales of World War II. In November of 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers descends on British soil with a diabolical goal: to abduct Winston Churchill and cripple the Allied war effort. The mission, ordered by Hitler himself and planned by Heinrich Himmler, is led by ace agent Kurt Steiner and aided on the ground by IRA gunman Liam Devlin. As the deadly duo executes Hitler's harrowing plot, only the quiet town of Studley Constable stands in their way. Its residents are the lone souls aware of the impending Nazi plan, and they must become the most unlikely of heroes as the fate of the war hangs in the balance.Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Himmler himself has a role in this book that Higgins states in the Prelude is half history and half fiction. I'm not sure about the historical part but it does make a good story. The ending is tragic and ironic. ( )