Language: English
ISBN: 0-00-221208-0
Pages: 352
Country: United Kingdom

The Eagle Has Landed PDF

The Eagle has landed PDF is an English novel written by Jack Higgins. This novel was published in United Kingdom on 8th September 1975. The theme of this novel is war. This novel was set during world war 2 in 1976 a film named “The Eagle has landed” was made based on this novel. The cast of this novel included Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall and Jenny Agutter.

Jack Higgins wrote a quasi-sequel of this novel named “The Eagle has flown”. This book was published in 1991.

Soon after its publication this book becomes best seller of its time. The movie based on this book also became the best seller.

The novel starts with a meeting of German High Command with Admiral Hitler orders the head of Abwehr (Admiral Canaris) to make a plan to kidnap Wilson Churchill. Wilson Churchill is the Prime Minister Britain. Canaris order Oberest Rodl to find the publisher for this plan. Rodl finds a German spy who knows that when and where British Prime Minister will go for his weekend vocation. The name of this German spy is Joanna Grey. Churchill fears Himmler more than Hitler.

Book Review of The Eagle Has Landed

Himmler order Rodl to continue with his plan without Canaris’s knowledge Rodl make arrangements to struggle a member of IRA named Liam Devlin to Norfolk as a veteran who is wounded. He also arrange for the landing of a German Commando team.

Disgraced Lt Col Kurt and the man who helped him after his court martial are selected to head this mission. Arrangements are made to drop this team to Norfolk. The team is disguised as Free Polish Troops. After reaching Norfolk the team got on with their mission to kidnap British Prime Minister.

This is a very solid story and is well written story. Reader will find many enjoyable moments and elements in this story with interesting characters. This is a war story as well as the story which contains many clandestine operations. All these operations reach at their highest level in both English and German governments. All the characters in this novel are fully developed. Story is a bit slow in the second part while first and third parts are excellent and very interesting.

In starting the story is very simple but it become more and more complex as you read it. This novel is an excellent story for the people who are fans of stories of World War 2 or are related to World War 2.

That is why this book became famous soon after its publication because people are really interested to know that how was the life at that time. People want to know about the politics and conspiracies which took place at that time. You just need to read this novel to know about the life of that time. The story is a bit slow in starting but people will that as soon as it shifts towards the main part, it is very interesting.

Tom Clancy says that Higgins is a master of his work. Tom Clancy himself is one of the best fiction authors of his time. What else can prove the popularity and fame of this novel? Tom Clancy’s remark about this book proves that Higgins is the best author and has written this story in the best way.

People today still love to read this novel. More than 50 million copies of this book were sold.

Although the story is based on false plot of kidnapping of British Prime Minister, but people from all over the world were attracted towards this novel and the number of copies which were sold all around the world proves this.

The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins