Where Eagles Dare (Collins English Library ELT Readers - Level 5 - Upper Intermediate) - Softcover

MacLean, Alistair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0003700968 ISBN 13: 9780003700961

Publisher: Collins Educational Glasgow, 1978

Synopsis

One winter night seven men and a girl, are parachuted onto a mountainside in war-time Germany. Their objective is to rescue a crashed VIP American general who has been taken to an in accessible castle for interrogation.

About this title

Review:

‘A real humdinger. The best MacLean.’
Daily Mirror

‘There is a splendid audacity about Where Eagles Dare, in which a handful of British agents invade an “impenetrable” Gestapo command post ... MacLean offers a real dazzler of a thriller, with vivid action, fine set pieces of suspense and a virtuoso display of startling plot twists.’
New York Times

About the Author:

Alistair MacLean, the son of a minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read English at Glasgow University and became a teacher. Two and a half years spent aboard a wartime cruiser gave him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins Educational Glasgow
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0003700968
• ISBN 13: 9780003700961
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Woollard Norah