copyright 1957 "First Edition" stated on copyright page; Doubleday & Company publishers; hardbound; very good condition of book and boards; dust jacket good with minor edge wear and tear; original owners ex-libris sticker inside front.
 
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The Guns of Navarone is a 1957 novel about the Second World War by Scottish writer Alistair MacLean that was made into the film The Guns of Navarone in 1961. The story concerns the efforts of an Allied commando team to destroy a seemingly impregnable German fortress that threatens Allied naval ships in the Aegean Sea and prevents over 1,200 isolated British Army soldiers from being rescued.
 
The Greek island of Navarone does not exist and the plot is fictional, but the story takes place within the real historical context of the 1943 Dodecanese campaign.