The Guns of Navarone
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Narrated by:
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Jonathan Oliver
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By:
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Alistair MacLean
About this listen
The guns of Navarone, huge and catastrophically accurate, embedded atop an impregnable iron fortress in the Mediterranean Sea.
Twelve hundred British soldiers trapped on a nearby island, with no hope of rescue from Allied ships, waiting to die.
Keith Mallory, world-famous mountaineer, skilled saboteur. His mission: to lead a small team of misfits and silence the guns forever.
Reaching the island and scaling the sheer cliffs undetected will be hard enough; defeating the German forces and destroying the massive guns all but impossible. And as for getting out alive when there may be a traitor in the team…
©1957 Alistair MacLean (P)2017 HarperCollins PublishersListeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
‘Could hardly be bettered.’
Sunday Times
‘Its strength comes from the speed of its narrative, its vivid creation of tensions and its power in handling descriptions of action.’
Evening Standard
‘Action sustained at a high pitch. From the outset there is a feeling of suspense: a problem that can only be solved by action involving danger and demanding courage … an insistently gripping tale.’
Scotsman
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- Lee Revell
- 02-12-22
A gripping listen.
Watched the movie first. Loved the movie. There's quite a few differences between the movie and the book. For me the differences make both versions outstanding.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-09-19
Excellent Listen
I watched the film a few days ago and enjoyed it. Then I purchased the unabridged book and throughly enjoyed much more than the film.
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- RussL
- 05-03-20
Still one of the best
Great storyline with a narrator who always brings the tales of wartime exploits to vivid life.
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- Mark
- 17-03-17
Nice to see, painful to listen ?
Where does The Guns of Navarone rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Having seen the movie and listened to the abridged cassette (?), read by Patrick Allen, in my teens it was a pleasant surprise to find a full unabridged version available on Audible. The story, although written in 1957 is still a great roller coaster ride and thoroughly enjoyable. A great piece of WWII fiction.
Would you be willing to try another one of Jonathan Oliver’s performances?
Oliver is good at the straight forward narrative parts. He struggles with accents and it really shows here. For example, Andrea, pronounced as An-drey-ah to me and most greeks is pronounced as And-rea, much like your great aunt, and I found myselt constantly correcting him!
Some of the german and greek accents are cringeworthy and the New Zealander, Mallory, comes across as rather.... wet. Miller was equally painful and Brown tolerable.
Oliver also struggles with moving between the accents and there are a number of overly long pauses in the diagloue. and also one horrendous edit (or my download glitched) within the first couple of hours. I think the director/producers have something to answer to here, and they let MacLean down here.
I nearly put it down (and that would have been the first time for any audible book) because of the accents in the narration, but persevered to the end. It would appear that Oliver is going to be the voice for this round of releases on MacLean's stories and therefore works like, When Eight Bells Toll, could play more to his strengths, rather than accentuate (bad pun) his weaknesses.
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- Mr Steve Walters
- 28-04-18
BRILLIANT much better than the film by far.
excellectly read.voices charaterised superbly ... Could not stop listening. Cant wait to hrar gorce 10, my next download
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- Big Syd
- 23-08-22
One weak point
A good read it there is a single hut large weak point and that is the character of the lead saboteur, Mallory, which does not convince. Too weak, too indecisive. Time and again he is saved by the men he has been sent to lead. Ironically Maclean is just recreating the character of Capt Valery from his first novel HMS Ulysses who was altogether more realistic.
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- whitaker Maclean
- 01-04-24
Mr Maclean is very good at what he does
Simple and exciting no bells or whistles just a great adventure story very well read.
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- Skellags.
- 27-11-24
Movie/Book comparison
Loved the different accents given to the various characters especially Miller and the differences between this and the movie. Not good or bad thing that the women from the movie did not feature in this audiobook. Mostly pleased.
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- Hamish Lambert
- 07-02-18
An all time classic.
Arguably the best work from the Thriller Writers Thriller Writer! The pace, detail and suspense never falter!
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- Mark_my_words
- 31-05-19
Long, but a classic tale, well told
Wonderful narration. Believable story line. Engaging characters. It may be an old novel but it's a good listen.
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