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The Guns of Navarone
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Guns of Navarone: Book 1

The Guns of Navarone (1957) (edit title/settings)

by Alistair MacLean (Author) (edit contributors)

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An entire navy had tried to silence the guns of Navarone and failed. Full-scale attacks had been driven back. Now they were sending in just five men, each one a specialist in dealing death.

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  • Captain Keith Mallory: New Zealand mountaineer enlisted for the mission, a natural leader and the brain leading the mission on Navarone
  • Colonel Andrea Stavros: Greek fighter outranking Mallory but both are closest of friends (unlike the poor movie version), he is the ace guerrilla fighter stealthy and untiring
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  • Lt. Commander Andrew Stevens: The other mountaineer, a British youth unsure of himself and his abilities
  • Louki: The Navarone native who is the key assistance to the mission to get close to the Guns
  • Petty Officer Casey Brown: The radio communications man and the man who can repair any machine for transport, he makes the brokendown fishing boat work to get to the Navarone island
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First Sentence edit see section history

The match scratched noisily across the rusted metal of the corrugated iron shed, fizzled, then burst into a sputtering pool of light, the harsh sound and sudden brilliance alike strangely alien in the stillness of the desert night.

Table of Contents edit see section history

1. Prelude: Sunday: 0100-0900
2. Sunday: Night: 1900-0200
3. Monday: 0700-1700
4. Monday: Evening: 1700-2330
5. Monday: Night: 0100-0200
6. Monday: Night: 0200-0600
7. Tuesday: 1500-1900
8. Tuesday: 1900-0015
9. Tuesday: Night: 0015:0200
10. Tuesday: Night: 0400-0600
11. Wednesday: 1400-1600
12. Wednesday: 1600-1800
13. Wednesday: Evening: 1800-1915
14. Wednesday: Night: 1915-2000
15. Wednesday: Night: 1915-2000
16. Wednesday: Night: 2115-2345
17. Wednesday: Night: Midnight

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 2 in Guns of Navarone. (standard series)

Followed by Force 10 from Navarone.

This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Alistair MacLean (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. A. Ribero (Translator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Collins
Country: England
Publication Date: 1957
ISBN: 0002432641
Page Count: 256

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