Alistair MacLean wrote adventure and thriller novels about war, sabotage, survival and small groups operating under extreme physical pressure. The Guns of Navarone follows an Allied commando mission to destroy heavily defended German guns threatening evacuation routes in the Aegean during the Second World War. Ice Station Zebra moves to the Arctic, where a submarine mission to a damaged weather station becomes entangled with espionage and deception. Where Eagles Dare sends British and American agents into a mountain fortress, while HMS Ulysses draws more directly on naval warfare and the brutal conditions of Arctic convoy duty. MacLean's books are fast-paced and plot-driven, often using hostile weather, confined spaces and hidden identities to increase tension. They fit military thriller, wartime adventure and espionage fiction. The Guns of Navarone is the strongest introduction to his combination of mission structure, technical obstacles and group dynamics under pressure. Read more Less
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