Sunday, July 12, 2015

Force 10 From Navarone by Alistair MacLean

Sequel to The Guns of Navarone



The store starts Immediately after the events portrayed in The Guns of Navarone, with Captain Keith Mallory and Corporal Dusty Miller assigned on a new mission code-named "Force 10". Mallory and Miller return to Navarone to recruit their comrade Andrea Stavros. They are joined by three young British Royal Marine Commandos, and are parachuted into Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. There they attempt to aid the Yugoslav Partisans in their battle against the Nazi German occupiers and their Chetnik collaborators.


Printing History
Written by Alistair Stuart MacLean (1922-1987)

HarperCollins (UK)
Doubleday (USA)
1968

The Film

1978
Directed by Guy Hamilton


Cast

Robert Shaw as Maj. Keith Mallory
Harrison Ford as Col. Barnsby
Edward Fox as Sgt. Miller
Barbara Bach as Maritza Petrović
Franco Nero as Capt. Lescovar/Col. von Ingorslebon
Carl Weathers as Sgt. Weaver
Richard Kiel as Capt. Dražak
Alan Badel as Maj. Petrović
Michael Byrne as Maj. Schroeder
Philip Latham as Commander Jensen
Angus MacInnes as Lt. Doug Reynolds
Michael Sheard as Sgt. Bauer

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