Gripping

We all know the outcome, we all know want didn't happen, but do we know the truth about we did happen? A gripping believable story.

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A perfectly written book.

Absolutely Brilliant!!!!! Can't express it any better. The film though superb and an all time favourite, missed and change bits....ooooh for the chance to remake it, with young Michael Caine

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At Last On Audible!

A literary classic of the genre
Thoroughly enjoyed it. Michael Caine Steiner is not. Recommended

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As you’d expect better than the movie

Great story fantastic narration having seen the movie more than once I loved the audio book ,can’t recommend enough.

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Well researched and superbly read

A thoroughly enjoyable and involving tale from the second world war with wonderful characterisation and believable storyline.

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Thrilling

The film is a classic and very faithful to the book which, of course, gives much more detail.
The narration is superb and Noble’s voices and accents are spot on. Always difficult to do female voices I think but he nails every one.
Highly recommended.

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A modern classic revisited

I still have the original hardback on my bookshelf .
It was a pleasure to revisit one of the outstanding WW2 novels via audio. Peter Noble's narration is superb.

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Fact or fiction??

Brilliant story, brilliantly performed, so much so that the listener finds themself questioning whether or not it actually happened.

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Relieved.

The Eagle Has Landed is one of my most favourite war films, I have visited the film location several times too, so I was more than a little worried that listening to the book wouldn’t live up to it. I really needn’t have worried at all. It’s so well written, putting you right there-the detail is fantastic. The performance is also extremely worthy of such an amazing story, with with fantastic characterisations that really bring them to life, which is why this is the first listen that has received a full house of stars from me. Overall a fantastic book and a great performance that just enhances my love for the film. Well done.

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Still Enthralling After All These years

I first read the Eagle Has Landed as a young child and was mesmerized by the story and totally shocked when I discovered it was true! So I was a bit hesitant to get the audio version in case it didn't live up to my expectations or even spoiled the book for me ... but I'm glad I eventually got it.

The audiobook is an absolutely brilliant version of this classic WWII page-turner.

If I had one small criticism it would be Liam Devlin's accent. In the beginning of the book the accent is a cross between a Southern Irish accent and a Belfast (North Irish) accent. The accent, of course, should be a Northern Irish accent (not the Southern Irish accent Donald Sutherland has in the film).

As the story progresses the narrator, Peter Noble, does get better at this and the accent does get stronger. American listeners won't be able to tell the difference but as this accent has gained more common usage on TV I think most Scottish and Welsh listeners will be able to tell the difference while the English just won't care ;) .

Noble does a great job throughout though. And, it goes with saying that the story is fantastic, as is the writing style.

This book is a must-read/must-listen for anyone who has even a slight interest in history, WWII or even the Irish Troubles.

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