The Eagle Has Landed: Review
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I'd like to welcome you to the national launch of Jack Higgins latest novel, The Eagle Has Landed. Like every other novel that Higgins has released it has captured our imaginations, thoughts and feelings. This novel is bound to be another bestseller. By basing the story on documented historical fact and by allowing the full range of his imagination and narrative gifts to supply the details, Higgins has written one of the most absorbing and compelling stories of World War 2.Full time excitement best describes this novel. The story is set in the heat of the action of World War 2 when Winston Churchill was leading the allies on their offensive and the Nazis were struggling to reply to the strength. The story's setting changes throughout the novel. It begins in Germany and ends in the south of England were most of the action takes place. The story is set out into two major parts. Firstly there is the careful preparation of the mission and then there is the actual execution of the mission where an elite commandos group attempt try to elude the inhabitants of the small village into believing that the invaders were in fact just a lost squadron of polish troops. Their mission once in the village is t
Instead Higgins has successfully described them to give us the physiological make up in their descriptions, which is very important in war stories. The reader to comes to like the Germans by the end of the novel, which is unusual for a World War 2 novel. The Eagle Has Landed is a first class novel packed with action and atmosphere. Over the years Devlin had accomplished a lot which enhanced his reputation that he was a legend of the IRA. In my personal opinion this has been not only one of the best war novels I have ever read but also one of the best novels written ever. The reader cannot resist reading on to find answers. Lieutenant - Colonel Kurt Steiner, leads the commandos into England. The organization of this highly delicate mission is assigned to Max Radl. Unfortunately that was how Germany was. He was born in the north of Ireland and through an incident that saw Devlins uncle loosing his eye Devlin devoted himself to the IRA. It's a close friendship but Steiner is still very strict and confident with the decisions he makes. For the organizers of this mission they had to make sure they treated Devlin with respect seeing he was a neutral in the war and could turn at any minute. He is a man that will go to all costs to complete his mission objectives. In 1934 he proved his skills by escaping from the Crumlin Road Gaol where he was sentenced for two years imprisonment for a bank raid to gather funds for the IRA. I think the themes from this book are going to have a strong impact on whoever reads this novel.
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