Book Review: 'The Eagle Has Landed'
1976-era paperback book cover. (C) 1976 Bantam Books It is November 1943. The Second World War is in its fourth year. Adolf Hitler's Third Reich is fending off Allied advances in the Eastern Front and in Italy. German cities are being bombed "around the clock" by the American and British air forces. Across the English Channel, the Anglo-American forces are marshaling troops and making plans for history's greatest amphibious operation, which is tentatively scheduled for May of 1944. But even though Germany has suffered great defeats in North Africa and the vast territories of the Soviet Union, Hitler still hopes to win the war. Desperately seeking a significant propaganda victory and inspired by the rescue of fellow dictator Benito Mussolini by a team of German special forces, the Fuhrer (egged on by SS chief Heinrich Himmler) orders the head of Military Intelligence ( Abwehr ) to carry out an even more daring special forces mission: to capture British Pri...