Force Ten from Navarone

I’m not entirely sure how I came to own this first edition hardback. The inscription is dedicated to my dad, from his parents, Christmas 1968. I began reading this over twenty years ago. At school, we were tasked with writing a short story. I was so inspired by the little I had read, that my twelve-y......more

A direct sequel to The Guns of Navarone, but where the original had a clear and simple mission, this one is convoluted. Keeping the exact details of their mission secret from the enemy is one thing, but keeping it secret from the reader meant I was quite often a bit lost as to what was actually goin......more

I grew up reading Alistair MacLean, and think it's a shame he isn't more well known today - believe all his books are currently out of print, and there are none in the Northern Virginia library system. That said, he hasn't aged as well as some of his contemporaries, (but then neither has Ian Fleming......more

The movie was great... too bad it was nothing like the book, which was even better. The book starts with Mallory, Miller, and Andrea being picked up at an airfield in Greece. The movie has only Mallory and Miller being pulled out of the sea by the Royal Navy. The movie adds two Americans (Harrison F......more

As far as I know, this is the only Alistair MacLean novel that is a sequel, a follow-on to The Guns of Navarone. But, strangely, it’s a sequel to the movie version of that novel rather than the novel itself and consequently a little bit confusing given the changes to the characters. This book picks......more