Guns of Navarone. Novels
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Alistair Maclean (1922-1987) was a British novelist, author of 28 thriller novels and adventure stories, and screenwriter. He was one of the top ten best-selling authors in the world; Maclean's books have sold over 150 million copies, and 18 films have been made based on his novels, screenplays and stories. In 1983, the University of Glasgow awarded the writer a doctorate in literary studies. From 1941 to 1946 Maclean served in the Navy, took part in military operations and polar convoys, which gave him a wealth of material for creativity and determined the themes of his best books. This collection, which includes four works of military-adventure genre, opens the famous novel "The Guns of Navaron Island". A group of British commandos in the shortest possible time ordered to destroy Hitler's coastal battery in the Aegean Sea ... "Guns..." became a bestseller, and the success of the screen adaptation of the same name led to the writing of a sequel. "The landing from the island of Navaron" - actually a remade script of the failed movie. Heroes Navaron receive a new assignment: they must disrupt the German operation to defeat the partisans in Yugoslavia ... The way to great literature opened Maclean's "His Majesty's Ship Ulysses" - a brilliant debut and one of the best foreign works about the war. The plot is based on the history of the Allied convoy that followed to the northern ports of the Soviet Union. In the novel "Where Eagles Fly" World War II is nearing its denouement. Kidnapped a general who has secret information about the opening of the second front, and to save him in the impregnable Alps sent a special group of...
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