Force 10 From Navarone

by Alistair MacLean

Book Overview

The thrilling sequel to Alistair MacLean's masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone. Now reissued in a new cover style.The guns of Navarone have been silenced, but the heroic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000B3Z3IA
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Fawcett Crest
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A SEQUEL, BUT NOT A SEQUEL.

May sound strange, 'a sequel but not a sequel'. Dictionary definition of 'sequel' is a continuation, and it is that from a character viewpoint, however, it is also not a sequel in that the action and events are not tied to Navarone at all. This is a book designed to stand alone and to introduce an entirely different view of a WWII theatre. On thing of apparent interest to Alistair MacLean was the Gustav Line in Italy and goings on in Yugoslavia. He not only writes of this subject in this book in 1968, but in 1982 returned to similar subject of the partisans and cetniks in his novel PARTISANS. In this Force 10 book he means to bring out the difficulty of the terrain on which Tito's forces had to fight, also the very limited amount of men and supplies they had, but also how they were able though always outnumbered and opposed by their fellow citizen Cetniks to generally come out as the victor. After the war Yugoslavia was estabished and for one who grew up in the 1950's, Marshal Tito seemed to be a frequent person in our weekly TIME magazines. In fact, to this reader, this book holds more closely to historical fact than Guns of Navarone, which in its way spoke about the fighting on Crete and the general evacuation of troops in the areas of both the Aegean and Dodecanese. Both books are excellent reads and as true with most books come off much better than the movies later filmed from them. If a reader enjoys Alistair MacLean's writing this book can never, ever be labeled a waste of time. The subsequent movie may be somewhat a waste of effort, but never the book. But while mentioning the movies, it is always of interest to note that Mr. MacLean quite often wrote the screen play from which the films themselves arose. Somewhat strange, almost as if he were trying to either rewrite his original book or write a completely different book on that subject. Now that Mr. MacLean has been dead for many years, almost anything he brought into print is more than worth the effort to read. As one reviewer mentioned, they don't have writers such as MacLean anymore. And we are much more the loss for it. Semper Fi.

What Went Wrong?

Alistair Maclean is one of my favorite authors. His story lines are usually fairly realistic with lots of action and plenty of fun dialogue. This story, takes the cake... I loved the Guns of Navarone, so I thought a sequel would be great. Unfortunately, Alistair relied to much on the fact that this was a sequel and failed miserably in the areas of plot, dialogue, and realism. This book, if it had been realistic, might have been a really good book. However, I found myself thinking, "This isn't real. I can't picture that," the whole book! If you're bored and have nothing to do, it's fine. But if you have a choice between this and something else, do the something else.

The Sequel to The Guns of Navarone

In "Force Ten from Navarone", author Alistair Maclean reunites us with the three main characters from "The Guns of Navarone" just after the completion of their desperate commando mission in the Greek Isles of the Second World War. However, there is no rest for the exhausted heroes, who are promptly launched on another mission by their boss in the British Special Operations Executive. Reinforced by a group of young British Commandos, the new team is parachuted into Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia and right into the midst of a three way conflict between the Germans and several Yugoslav factions who are also engaged in a civil war. The team's mission is to traverse the war-torn country, navigating between the warring factions, and destroy a huge dam that is the key to a planned German offensive. The heroes from Navarone are world-weary, and wary, warriors compared to the young and enthusiastic commandos with whom they are teamed, but all will have to pull together if they are to survive a series of betrayals and mishaps. Maclean has provided a typically twisted plot that produces surprises and suspense to the very end. Maclean's excellent and sardonic dialogue is matched with a good sense of place for war-torn Yugoslavia. This novel is infinitely more entertaining than the movie of the same title starring Harrison Ford and Robert Shaw, with which it shares not a whole lot more than a title. This book is highly recommended to fans of Alistair Maclean, and to readers looking for an entertaining novel.

Pretty Good Sequel

Force 10 From Navarone is a pretty good sequel to the original Guns of Navarone. Actually, its a pretty good thriller novel in its own right. It combines, humor, action, suspense, intrigue, well drawn characters and a well thought out plot to result in a compulsive page turner.

A sequel as good as the first

This is a great sequel to "The Guns of Navarone". Our threee original heros are back and better than ever. This book has everything, suspense,intrigue, and a nice twist at the end. If you like Maclean, you'll love this book. Defintely one of his best works.