The Guns of Navarone audiobook by Alastair MacLean. Read by Patrick Allen. Abridged.
The Guns of Navarone: (from back cover of cassette box. Produced for “Listen for Pleasure in 1977) Army intelligence is certain that within a week the Germans will mount an all-out attack to retake Keros, a Greek Island in the Aegean (The sea between Greece and Turkey). Unless 1200 British soldiers can be evacuated, they will almost certainly be killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. It’s a job for the royal Navy. There is one seemingly insurmountable obstacle, the guns of Navarone. These enormous 9” guns cover the approaches to Keros and make evacuation impossible. Somehow, they must be neutralized. An allied commando team is sent out to destroy the guns. The Guns of Navarone was published in 1957 and made into a blockbuster film in 1961. (7.5 rating on IMDB}. It Starred Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and David Niven. While the story is fiction, there was a campaign during WW2 (1943) to capture the Dodecanese island chain in the Aegean Sea from the Italians.

Alastair MacLean (1922-1987) was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland. He served as an able Seaman and torpedo operator during World War 2 where he saw action in the Atlantic. After the war he attended University and worked as a street sweeper (honest work is honorable work). He began selling short stories to local magazines and newspapers before getting his first novel published, HMS Ulysses, which went on to sell millions. An estimated 150,000,000 of Mr. MacLean’s books have been sold. Other books include: • Ice Station Zebra • Where Eagles Dare • Circus • The River of Death • Force 10 from Navarone -A sequel to the Guns of Navarone • San Andreas • Night without End… Time for a visit to your library
Quote “To all things an end, to every night a dawn, even to the long night when dawn never comes, there comes, at last, the dawn.”

Patrick Allen (1927-2006) Born in the British Colony of Nyasaland, now Republic of Malawi, Patrick was evacuated to Canada during WW2 where he attended McGills University and got experience as a radio broadcaster and appeared in plays and documentaries on television. His career includes 157, often but not always, small roles in film and television E.g., Sergeant on the parade ground, in the 1958 film Dunkirk. He is also the uncredited narrator of Force 10 from Navarone (A nice coincidence) and a General in an episode of the Avengers.

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