The Eagle Has Landed
Written by Jack Higgins
Narrated by Michael Page
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
It was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war: Operation Eagle, SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler’s audacious plan to kidnap Winston Churchill on British soil in November 1943.
But, despite spectacular secrecy, there was to be no surrender without a fight.…
For in a remote corner of Norfolk, an elite unit is gathered together. Ready to do battle for a nation against the most ruthless task force ever assembled.
“100 percent proof adventure.” —New York Times
Jack Higgins
Since The Eagle Has Landed—one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time—every novel Jack Higgins has written has become an international bestseller. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, including The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives in Jersey on the Channel Islands.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Higgins' classic 'The Eagle Has Landed' moves at a fast pace and delivers everything you want from it: action, sympathetic pro- AND antagonists and a genuine sense of historical accuracy. Which is of course utter bull, but is a nice touch.It's easy to see why it was snapped up to become one of the classic WWII action adventure movies of the last century.Well worth the read.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A very exciting thriller; if you have seen the film, the plot will be familiar. The final battle scenes are longer and more bloody and there is a minor difference in the final conclusion to the Germans' operation with regard to Churchill, which is handled more dramatically in the film. One of the most striking and somewhat uncomfortable aspects of this novel is that you can't help feeling some sympathy for the German soldiers and their allies, Liam Devlin and, to an extent, Joanna Grey. The motivations for all these characters are explored very effectively and the only wholly unsympathetic (fictional) characters are the Britischer Freikorps man Preston and the Birmingham gangster Devlin kneecaps. Powerful stuff.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow! Great story, great character development, great reader. This book had it all for me. Absolutely loved it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Even after watching the great movie with Michael Caine, Robert Duvall and Donald Sutherland, and knowing how it ended, the audiobook is still a tremendous way to watch it again (in my mind, this time). Narrator may be the best ever I’ve heard for any audiobook.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A wonderful book. Years ago I watched and loved the movie, but the book is better and allows the reader to get closer to the characters involved. There is also a thorough afterword to the book which provides follow-up on those who lived after the event. Highly recommended.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was a ripping good read -- I enjoyed it from start to finish and had to go out and pick up the sequel!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5OK, I guess, but I just didn't really care. I stopped listening about 9/10s of the way through. The setup, all the description of planning, was interesting, butas soon as the plan starts to unravel, it's obvious it's going to fail, and at that point I wasn't especially interested in how the various characters are going to die or be captured.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Nazis come to England to try to assassinate Churchill. That's basically the idea - the story is how the plan is put together, how it works and doesn't, and intertwines with the life of a small town near the coast struggling to survive the war.I'm not a huge fan of war fiction, which tempers my response to this piece, but as far as these things go, the writing is good and the pace reasonable enough; it provided a few days' entertainment at least.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A daring premise, surprising plot twists, and well captured historical background combine to make this thriller a memorable read. The premise is that a small group of German commandos is going to try to do the unthinkable--kidnap or assasinate Churchill while he is visiting an out of the way town in the English countryside. To that end they recruit Liam Devlin--an Irishman who hates the English--to work with them. Liam's colorful Irish ways make--captured skillfully by the narrator in the audio version I listened to--make him leap off of the page. His resourcefulness--and Irish luck--may just give the Germans a chance to pull it off, but his attraction for one of the local girls may prove to be his undoing. This book has a colorful cast of characters, all so well done you can't help but wish for almost all of them to succeed--which of course they can't. It was a delight to listen to and I highly recommend it to anyone wishing for a thriller that will keep them on the edge of their seat, hanging on every word to see what's going to happen next.