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The dat4e- November 1943. The place-Studley Constable, a remote Norfolk village. A group of Polish commandos, led by an English officer, arrives on exercises..but simultaneously a message is radioed to Hummler's headquarters in Berlin: "The eagle Has landed".
For these men are not Polish commandos but German paratroopers under orders from Hitler to bring off one of the most audaciouis coups of the war-to kidnap Churchill and bring him back to Germany! This exciting, well-plotted and entirely credible story by JACK HIGGINS recounts how the attempt almost succeeded and how, but for a chance accident, Kurt Steiner ahd his men, aided by German agent Joanna Grey and ex-IRA member Liam Devlin, almost achieved the impossible. This recorded version is read by Edward Fox, an actor of international fame.
For these men are not Polish commandos but German paratroopers under orders from Hitler to bring off one of the most audaciouis coups of the war-to kidnap Churchill and bring him back to Germany! This exciting, well-plotted and entirely credible story by JACK HIGGINS recounts how the attempt almost succeeded and how, but for a chance accident, Kurt Steiner ahd his men, aided by German agent Joanna Grey and ex-IRA member Liam Devlin, almost achieved the impossible. This recorded version is read by Edward Fox, an actor of international fame.
