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The inscription reads "Come my friends 'tis not too late to seek a newer world." Nature, especially the sea and the Arctic north, plays an important part in MacLean's stories, and he used a variety of exotic parts of the world as settings to his books. Many of MacLean's novels were made into films, but none completely captured the level of detail and the intensity of his writing style as exemplified in classics such as Fear is the Key; the two most artistically and commercially successful film adaptations were The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare. ||
 * ====__**Plot Summary**__: Captain Kieth Mallory (who was a mountain climber from New Zealand before the war), Andrea Stavros, Corporal Miller (explosives expert), and two others are given a suicide mission: to go into enemy territory and destroy the two massive guns located on the top of the German fortress on the Aegean Island of Navarone. These guns are facing the water, effectively stopping any ship that goes in to rescue the 1,200 Allied (British) troops stranded on the nearby island of Kheros. If they aren't rescued quickly, they will all be killed. The team boards a small craft, and heads to Navarone. On the way there, his small ship is nearly destroyed in a storm, and he then must climb a 400 foot sheer cliff in the middle of the freezing cold storm. In the process, they lose all their food, have to fight past many German soldiers, and they have to discover a way into a fortress which is heavily guarded. If they are captured, there lives are, along with the lives of 1,200 soldiers. ==== ||
 * ==== [[image:alistair_maclean.jpg align="left"]]  __**About The Author:**__ Alistair Stuart MacLean (21 April1922 - 2 February 1987; Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacGill-Eain) was a Scottish novelist who wrote successful thrillers or adventure stories, the best known of which are perhaps The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, both having been made into successful films. He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart.MacLean was the son of a minister, and learned English as his second language after his mother tongue, Scottish Gaelic. He was born in Glasgow but spent much of his childhood and youth in Daviot, ten miles south of Inverness. He was the third of four sons and had no sisters.He joined the Royal Navy in 1941, serving in World War II with the ranks of Ordinary Seaman, Able Seaman, and Leading Torpedo Operator. He was first assigned to PS Bournemouth Queen, a converted excursion ship fitting for anti-aircraft guns, on duty off the coasts of England and Scotland.In 1944 he served in the Mediterranean theatre, as part of the invasion of southern France and in helping to sink blockade runners off Crete and bombard Milos in the Aegean. During this time MacLean may have been injured in a gunnery practice accident. In 1945, in the Far East theatre, he saw action escorting carrier groups in operations against Japanese targets inBurma, Malaya, and Sumatra. MacLean's late-in-life claims that he was captured by the Japanese and tortured have been dismissed by both his son and his biographer as drunken ravings. MacLean was released from the Royal Navy in 1946. He then studied English at the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1953, and then worked as a school teacher in Rutherglen.While a university student, MacLean began writing short stories for extra income, winning a competition in 1954 with the maritime story "Dileas". In the early 1960s, MacLean published two novels under the pseudonym "Ian Stuart" in order to prove that the popularity of his books was due to their content rather than his name on the cover. He also struggled constantly with alcoholism, which eventually brought about his death in Munich in 1987. He is buried a few yards from Richard Burton in Céligny, Switzerland. He was married twice and had three sons with his first wife; the third son was adopted.Compared to other thriller writers of the time, such as Ian Fleming, MacLean's books are exceptional in one way at least: they have an absence of sex and most are short on romance because MacLean thought that such diversions merely serve to slow down the action. Nor do the MacLean books resemble the more recent techno-thriller approach. Instead, he lets little hinder the flow of events in his books, making his heroes fight against seemingly unbeatable odds and often pushing them to the limits of their physical and mental endurance. MacLean's heroes are usually calm, cynical men entirely devoted to their work and often carrying some kind of secret knowledge. ====

__**List of Works: **__
1955: //HMS Ulyssies// 1957: //The Guns of Navarone// 1957: //South by Java Head// 1959: //The Last Frontier// 1959: //Night Without End// 1961: //Fear is the Key// 1961: //The Dark Crusader// 1962: //The Golden Rendezvous// 1962: //The Satan Bug// 1962: //All About Lawrence of Arabia// 1963: //Ice Station Zebra// 1966: //When Eight Bells Toll// 1967: //Where Eagles Dare// 1968: //Force 10 From Navarone// 1969: //Puppet on a Chain// 1970: //Caravan to Vaccarès// 1971: //Bear Island// 1972: //Alistair MacLean Introduces Scotland// 1972: //Captain Cook// 1973: //The Wayto Dusty Death// 1974: //Breakheart Pass// 1975: //Circus// 1976: //The GoldenGate// 1977: //Seawitch// 1977: //Goodbye California// 1980: //Athabasca// 1981: //River of Death// 1982: //Partisans// 1983: //Floodgate// 1984: //San Andreas// 1985: //The Lonely Sea// 1986: //Santorini//

__**Relative News: **__ __**[|Nazi Germany and the impacts] **__ I chose this story because it relates to the time period in my book. I also chose this article because this story is about how the Nazi treated the Jews, Africans, and any other races that wasn't like the Arian nation. Another reason this article relates to my book are the the National complications like crossing neutral territories. For example the U.S trying to cross Turkey back in the 1930's and 1940's, or like a few ears age when Germany invaded Georgia. Those are the reasons i felt like this article related to my book.

BIO: My name is Kevin Pullen. I enjoy hockey, track, making movies, playing xbox, and just kickin back and chillin with my friends. im not a big reader so basically what i'm saying is that I wouldn't have read the book unless I had to. But it was a great book and I'd recommend it to anyone who is interested in WWII history or books, and it will keep your adrenaline going till the very last paige.

Movie: this book was already made into a movie back in 1961. It was a fantastic movie with an excellent cast. I don't think id change the original cast at all because they did such a phenomenal job that i don't think they can be beat.

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