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The Guns of Navarone

Alistair MacLean ·1957 ·320 pages ·★ 4.3WarBooks rating
Historical Fiction Accessible Fictional
🇬🇧 British

Five saboteurs climb an impossible cliff to silence the German guns commanding the Aegean.

Why Read This Book

The template for every commando thriller since, by a man who served in the theater he invented it in. Pure velocity.

Events Covered

1943 Italian Campaign Sicily & Italy

Where to Buy

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ISBN: 978-0006172472

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