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Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean Hard Cover 1956
The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean
Hard Cover (NOTICE the tear in the bidning)
320 pages
Copyright 1956
Five men were chosen to silence THE GUNS OF NAVARONE which controlled the approaches to the eastern Mediterranean island of Kheros. The British garrison on Kheros, twelve hundred men, had to be evacuated before the Germans launched their inevitable attack. The guns would have to be silenced in one swift, secret strike.
The raiding party would go by boat, landing where the Germans least expected them: at the foot of the towering cliffs, beneath the impossible, impregnable walls of rock. Then they would climb the cliffs.
First the stowed away a sackful of old clothes, then the food, pressure stove and fuel, the heavy boots, spikes, mallets, rock axes and coils of wire centered rope to be used for climbing, then, more carefully, the combined radio receiver and transmitter and the firing generator fitted with the old-fashioned plunge handle. Next came the guns two Schmeissers, two Brens, a Mauser and a Colt then a case containing a weird but carefully selected hodge-podge of torches, mirrors, two sets of identity papers and, incredibly, bottles of Hock, Moselle, ouzo and retsima.
Finally, and with exaggerated care, they stowed away for ard om the forepeak two wooden boxes, one green in colour, medium sized and bound in brass, the other small and black...the explosives.
Five men were going to attempt the impossible.The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean
CONTENTS
ONE Prelude: Sunday9
0100-0900
TWO Sunday Night27
1900-0200
THREE Monday45
0700-1700
FOUR Monday Evening67
1700-2330
FIVE Monday Night95
0100-0200
SIX Monday Night117
0200-0600
SEVEN Tuesday137
1500-1900
EIGHT Tuesday157
1900-0015
NINE Tuesday Night171
0015-0200
TEN Tuesday Night185
0400-0600
ELEVEN Wednesday217
1400-1600
TWELVE Wednesday229
1600-1800
THIRTEEN Wednesday Evening247
1800-1915
FOURTEEN Wednesday Night263
1915-2000
FIFTEEN Wednesday Night279
2000-2115
SIXTEEN Wednesday Night301
2115-2345
SEVENTEEN Wednesday Night315
Midnight
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