The Eagle Has Landed

<p><b>They’ve got three days to win the war . . .</b></p><p><Br></p><p><b>Celebrating 50 years of the WWII classic that defined a generation — with a new introduction by Peter James.</b></p><p>–</p><p><Br></p><p><b>Early morning, November 6, 1943:</b></p><p><Br></p><p>Heinrich Himmler receives a coded message: </p><p><Br></p><p>‘The Eagle has landed.’</p><p><Br></p><p>It means an audacious Nazi plan to destroy Britain with one strike is under way.</p><p><Br></p><p>Parachuting undetected into a remote corner of Norfolk, an elite unit of SS soldiers is led by the brilliant but disgraced Lt-Col Kurt Steiner. </p><p><Br></p><p>There, aided by German agents, they will kidnap the guest secretly staying at a nearby country house, and take him to an E-boat, off the coast.</p><p><Br></p><p><b>The guest? Prime Minister Winston Churchill . . .</b></p><p><Br></p><p><b>First published fifty years ago, The Eagle Has Landed is the classic tale of wartime treachery, and one of the bestselling thrillers of all time.</b></p><p><Br>--</p><p><b><u>Praise for Jack Higgins:</u></b></p><p><Br></p><p><b>'A thriller writer in a class of his own'</b> Financial Times</p><p><Br></p><p><b>'Higgins is a master of his craft'</b> Daily Telegraph</p><p><Br></p><p><b>'A compulsively readable storyteller'</b> Sunday Express</p><p><Br></p><p><b>'100 per cent proof adventure'</b> New York Times</p>