Where Eagles Dare

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Acțiunea romanului se petrece pe perioada a 24 de ore în timpul celui de-al Doilea Razboi Mondial. John Smith si echipa sa trebuie să se infiltreze în interiorul castelului Schloss Adler (supranumit și Castelul Vulturilor) pentru a salva un general amercan care a fost prins de nemți după ce avionul lui s-a prăbusit în Alpi. În misiunea lor, spionii au parte de tot felul de obstacole care mai de care mai periculoase. Misiunea lor: să salveze ostatecul și să rămână în viață!

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Where Eagles Dare: No 24 best action and war film of all time". The Guardian. 19 October 2010. Archived from the original on 19 February 2014 . Retrieved 23 July 2013. Had I reviewed this in my thriller-loving youth, I would have given it five stars. It is the adventure story par excellence: the secret mission behind enemy lines carried out by a group of intrepid adventurers: the snowbound castle up in the sky: fights on the top a moving cable car: and double-crosses, double-double-crosses and (even) double-double-double-crosses. I think a good book must make you tremble, laugh, leave you speechless, hold your breath, make you eager to read it, make you sorry you finished it so fast. Aba, Marika (21 July 1968). "The Burtons... 'Just Another Working Couple' ". Los Angeles Times. p.c18.

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A good book should leave you with a big smile of satisfaction because you've read it. And it must leave you thinking about it long after you finished it. I capture the castle". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 April 2019 . Retrieved 20 April 2019. I've found that MacLean's stories generally work better on the screen than in book form.In this case,he wrote the screenplay as well,and it's pretty good. Lightman, Herb A. "Front Projection for "2001: A Space Odyssey" ". American Cinematographer. Archived from the original on 2 January 2013 . Retrieved 26 October 2013. Romanul este plin de acțiune, de ține în suspans încă de la primele pagini. Descrierile sunt clare, la obiect, chiar dacă povestea este plină de detalii. Modul în care este scris romanul, ne face pe noi să ne imaginăm fiecare miscare pe care o face Smith și combină perfect seriozitatea misiunii cu umorul replicilor dintre personaje. Se pare că spionajul nu e chiar floare la ureche, mai ales pe timp de război. Atitudinea lui Smith este revigorantă!

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Where Eagles Dare". January 1969. Archived from the original on 1 February 2018 . Retrieved 20 December 2017. Mary we are told near the end is an experienced and resourceful spy, in another chapter we are told she knows how to act "professional" but throughout the book she spends more time mooning over the excessively unlikeable Smith than doing anything else. She does beat up ne female and of course ridiculously attractive spy from the other side which is nice (?). He of course does not return the favour and with his hyper-masculine attitude and stiff upper lip gives no indication that he even likes her until suddenly at the end he demands (right verb I am afraid) to marry her.

Der Kampf des an der Hand verwundeten Superhelden Smith/Schmidt auf dem Dach der vereisten Seilbahn gegen drei gesunde und bewaffnete Gegenspieler strapaziert zwar die Glaubwürdigkeit bis zum Äußersten ist aber eine deutliche Steigerung gegenüber den vorher gehenden Szenen. Allerdings wehrt sich Smith-Darsteller Burton in zähem Ringen erfolgreich gegen zwei Gegner, im Roman hampelt darüber hinaus noch ein Caracciola mit einer Maschinenpistole in der Gondel und zuletzt auch auf dem Dach herum, - natürlich gibt es auch noch einen Nazi-General namens Rosemeyer. A team of 6 British special forces headed by Major John Smith and one American Lieutenant Morris Schaffer were airdropped behind enemy lines to rescue an US Army General George Carnaby having secret with him about D-day plan, he who had crash landed and is in the custody of Germans in an impregnable fortress, an inaccessible eyrie set between mountain and sky, Schloss Adler.

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It's been a long time since I read an Alistair MacLean novel so I grabbed one that was a favorite, and it didn't disappoint. Even though it's been years, MacLean is still a sure bet if you are looking for an entertaining story. I came to know about this novel when joined good reads, then I got the DVD watched it before reading the book. This year in the book exhibition I bought Alistair MacLean's suspense thriller "Where Eagles Dare" Alistair Maclean’s writing is as brisk and efficient as ever, with little in the way of literary flourish. He does though overuse adverbs, particularly in dialogue: For example this exchange:

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It depends on plot and scenario much more than it does on explosions’ … Mary Ure in Where Eagles Dare. Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar Sadly being young girls we were more interested in school stories, June and Schoolfriend, Schoolgirls, those tales of War bored us to tears. The World's Top Twenty Films." Sunday Times [London, UK] 27 September 1970: 27. The Sunday Times Digital Archive. accessed 5 April 2014

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It’s early in 1944. The Germans have shot down and captured General George Carnaby, one of the planners of the upcoming D-Day invasion. They’ve taken Carnaby to the Schloss Adler, the Bavarian SS headquarters. The Schloss Adler is on top of a mountain, with only a cable car for access, and so practically impregnable. Though the mission looks to be simple but the team also has double agents and on the way to Schloss Adler two members die mysteriously. There are many twists in the story, is Major Smith is really from British force or is he a German and double agent named Major Johann Schmidt? Is the crash landing of the American General is a drama? What so special about the General George Carnaby? and more questions arise when we dwell into the story. Mad Magazine published a satire of the film in its October 1969 issue under the title "Where Vultures Fare." In 2009 Cinema Retro released a special issue dedicated to Where Eagles Dare which detailed the production and filming of the film. [38] First Edition. 256 pp. White endpapers, with previous owner's name on ffep. Green cloth with gilt titles. Corners lightly bumped. Colour illustration on DJ. Small chips, wear along the edges. VG+/VG. Where Eagles Dare - Memorabilia UK". Archived from the original on 10 October 2022 . Retrieved 21 October 2018.

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For more on summarising stories, see How to Write a Novel Synopsis) Where Eagles Dare: Analysis Plot Maiorul Smith dovedește incontestabile calități de lider, dar și inteligență iețită din comun ce le salvează viețile de nenumărate ori. Este cu un pas înaintea băieților răi si e atent la detalii. Ceea ce mi-a plăcut cel mai mult la Smith este calmul cu care tratează orice situatie, și culmea, mereu reușește să acționeze în așa fel încât să scape la limita din mâinile inamicului. Nu se lasă intimidat sau distras de la misiune, abia în momentul încheierii acesteia își permite să dea frau liber emoțiilor. Hardcover. Condition: Good. original illustrations by Gary Rees (illustrator). Undated edition with illustrations dated 1973. Published by arrangement with William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd from the 1987 Cymbeline Production Ltd edition. Firmly bound blue artificial leather boards, with gilt titles and decorations. Some rubbing on the spine.