I’m not entirely sure how I came to own this first edition hardback. The inscription is dedicated to my dad, from his parents, Christmas 1968.I began reading this over twenty years ago. At school, we were tasked with writing a short story. I was so inspired by the little I had read, that my twelve-year-old-self took to writing his own World War II masterpiece. The room was silent when I felt the teacher hovering over my shoulder, followed by her announcement: “Remember people. There is to be no ...

I read this decades ago! I had forgotten about it until I just saw it in another feed. Needless to say I can't give it a specific rating because the only thing I remember about it is that I liked it. At that time I picked it up since I watched the movie because Harrison Ford was in it.

A direct sequel to The Guns of Navarone, but where the original had a clear and simple mission, this one is convoluted. Keeping the exact details of their mission secret from the enemy is one thing, but keeping it secret from the reader meant I was quite often a bit lost as to what was actually going on. Fun to be had revisiting the characters though, and a few thrills along the way.

Watched the movie,which is the sequel to The Guns of Navarone. While the latter had Gregory Peck,Anthony Quinn and David Niven,this one has Harrison Ford,Bond girl Barbara Bach and Richard Keil (who played "Jaws" in James Bond films).

Harrison Ford is rather wooden,not his best performance.His character is not in the book and it seems the book and the movie differ a great deal.

The Guns of Navarone was a much better movie.This one is rather forgettable.

A good story with lots of tense moments, brimming with action. I was enticed into reading the book after having seen the movie and as it often turns out the book was much better than the movie (not to say that the movie is not a good one).
A recommended read to all fans of action stories, especially war stories.

As far as I know, this is the only Alistair MacLean novel that is a sequel, a follow-on to The Guns of Navarone. But, strangely, it’s a sequel to the movie version of that novel rather than the novel itself and consequently a little bit confusing given the changes to the characters. This book picks up immediately after the events of the first (movie version). And I do mean “immediately”. Perhaps 10 minutes have passed and the survivors of that first mission, (Captain Keith Mallory and Corporal D...

I'm a huge Harrison Ford fan so it's a wonder that I've never actually watched Force 10 From Navarone all the way through. I picked up the book a couple years ago, just getting around to reading it, because I'm one of 'those' people. You know, the ones who read the book because of the movie and vice versa as was the case with this book.I must say that having not read (or even watched) Guns From Navarone didn't deter me in the least. After reading Force 10, I'm definitely going to hunt for Guns a...

I grew up reading Alistair MacLean, and think it's a shame he isn't more well known today - believe all his books are currently out of print, and there are none in the Northern Virginia library system. That said, he hasn't aged as well as some of his contemporaries, (but then neither has Ian Fleming). He had a few really great books - mostly his war and Cold War books (HMS Ulysses, Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare) - and a bunch of real stinkers in his later career. But ove...

The movie was great... too bad it was nothing like the book, which was even better. The book starts with Mallory, Miller, and Andrea being picked up at an airfield in Greece. The movie has only Mallory and Miller being pulled out of the sea by the Royal Navy. The movie adds two Americans (Harrison Ford and Carl Weathers), which were not in the book. The movie also omits one of the most crucial characters in the book... Sgt. Reynolds. The rivalry/bickering between Miller and Reynolds in the book ...

By Alistair Maclean. #2 of the Navarone series. Grade: B+The Guns of Navarone have been silenced. But the heroic survivors are form still. They are ready for action again – and are heading for even more excitement and danger. Their mission: to free an entire partisan army trapped in the rugged mountains of Yugoslavia. It begins with a parachute drop behind enemy lines and a deliberate walk into a German camp. Six men against the might of two armoured divisions. They couldn’t fight them. So they ...