The Eagle Has Flown

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Summary: A regular sequel
Review: Jack Higgins reached his top with "The Eagle Has Landed". Said that, we can clearly state that this was a very inferior book. Being a Higgins fan, I wanted to know what happened to the "heroes" of the first book and I was a bit disappointed. EHF reapeats some situations found in EHL and the action is not so fast-paced as the previous one. I only recommend EHF if: 1) you have already read EHL; and 2) you are a Higgins fan.

Rating:
Summary: A regular sequel
Review: Jack Higgins reached his top with "The Eagle Has Landed". Said that, we can clearly state that this was a very inferior book. Being a Higgins fan, I wanted to know what happened to the "heroes" of the first book and I was a bit disappointed. EHF reapeats some situations found in EHL and the action is not so fast-paced as the previous one. I only recommend EHF if: 1) you have already read EHL; and 2) you are a Higgins fan.

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Summary: The action packed sequel.
Review: Liam Devlin, Colonel Stiener and the SS are back in the sequel to the Eagle has Landed. Packed with more action than the first, filled to the brim with excitement and suspenese, this novel easily dwarfs its predesceor. So good, you will never want to put it down. You begin to know and befriend the characters and upon finishing the book, you feel a sense of loss. I highly recomend this book

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Summary: His all time Bestseller
Review: More information on Jack Higgins can be found at:
The Unofficial Jack Higgins Homepage
Http://www.scintilla.utwente.nl/users/gert/higgins

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Summary: Good, but not great
Review: The book is Jack Higgins's sequel to the classic, THE EAGLE HAS LANDED. It is a decent book, but you have to (at some points) force yourself to continue reading. It was a good book, but not something I would read over and over again.

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Summary: Eagle Reheated
Review: The central disappointment of this novel was that Steiner, the sympathetic anti-hero of "Eagle has Landed," remained alive, despite him being so convincingly (and movingly) killed at the conclusion of that instalment. But nothing succeeds like success, and despite his own mission's failure his first book's success leads Steiner to have a Lazarus-like existence in this sequel. Some of the characters and sub-plots are very well constructed, and Higgins' writing style - always way above average for this gentre - carries you along as well. If you like rear-echelon British Fascists in secret partnership with the Axis, or ruthlessly unpleasant M15 interrogators, or exciting things happening with light aircraft, this is the book for you.

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Summary: Not quite "The Eagle has Landed," but a good read anyway.
Review: This book is the sequel to Higgins' earlier work "The Eagle has Landed," a story about a small group of German paratroopers sent to England in 1943 to kidnap Winston Churchill. It picks up just after "Landed."

Heirich Himmler charges one of his SS generals with putting together a plot to break out the only survivor of the first mission, Lt. Col. Steiner, who's being held as a POW in London. General Schellenberg recruits former IRA gunman Liam Devlin, now in Lisbon, to run the operation in England. Devlin succeeds, with the help of a pair of down-on-their-luck English fascist sympathizers and one of Devlin's old IRA sleeper contacts in London. There's also a subplot of an attempted SS coup against Hitler, and Devlin & company's attempt to thwart it.

This book isn't quite on par with "Landed," but is a good read nonetheless. If you read "Landed," then you'd probably enjoy this book, although it did leave the issue of what happened to the survivors unresolved at the end, which sticks in my craw a little bit. I would have liked it better if Higgins had extended the epilogue and wrapped everything up, but it seemed he was leaving the door open for a third book in the series. I did think it was interesting how Higgins framed most of the narrative: The prologue and epilogue were set in the present day, as though an aging Liam Devlin was telling the story to Higgins.

I thought the most interesting character was Captain Asa Vaughn, an American pilot who fought the Soviets for the Finns, but when the Finns allied with the Germans, was given a choice: the SS or a concentration camp. He joined the SS, with the condition that he only fights on the Eastern Front. He's ordered to fly into England and exfiltrate Devlin and Steiner. I would have liked Higgins to go into some more detail about Vaughn and what happened to him after the war; what did he do with the rest of his life? Did he ever go back to the States? Oh well, I guess I'll just have to wait for Higgins to turn out the 3rd book to clear up this and my other questions.

If you liked "The Eagle has Landed," you like "The Eagle has Flown," but be prepared for some unresolved questions at the end.

Rating:
Summary: Not quite "The Eagle has Landed," but a good read anyway.
Review: This book is the sequel to Higgins' earlier work "The Eagle has Landed," a story about a small group of German paratroopers sent to England in 1943 to kidnap Winston Churchill. It picks up just after "Landed."

Heirich Himmler charges one of his SS generals with putting together a plot to break out the only survivor of the first mission, Lt. Col. Steiner, who's being held as a POW in London. General Schellenberg recruits former IRA gunman Liam Devlin, now in Lisbon, to run the operation in England. Devlin succeeds, with the help of a pair of down-on-their-luck English fascist sympathizers and one of Devlin's old IRA sleeper contacts in London. There's also a subplot of an attempted SS coup against Hitler, and Devlin & company's attempt to thwart it.

This book isn't quite on par with "Landed," but is a good read nonetheless. If you read "Landed," then you'd probably enjoy this book, although it did leave the issue of what happened to the survivors unresolved at the end, which sticks in my craw a little bit. I would have liked it better if Higgins had extended the epilogue and wrapped everything up, but it seemed he was leaving the door open for a third book in the series. I did think it was interesting how Higgins framed most of the narrative: The prologue and epilogue were set in the present day, as though an aging Liam Devlin was telling the story to Higgins.

I thought the most interesting character was Captain Asa Vaughn, an American pilot who fought the Soviets for the Finns, but when the Finns allied with the Germans, was given a choice: the SS or a concentration camp. He joined the SS, with the condition that he only fights on the Eastern Front. He's ordered to fly into England and exfiltrate Devlin and Steiner. I would have liked Higgins to go into some more detail about Vaughn and what happened to him after the war; what did he do with the rest of his life? Did he ever go back to the States? Oh well, I guess I'll just have to wait for Higgins to turn out the 3rd book to clear up this and my other questions.

If you liked "The Eagle has Landed," you like "The Eagle has Flown," but be prepared for some unresolved questions at the end.

Rating:
Summary: Not quite "The Eagle has Landed," but a good read anyway.
Review: This book is the sequel to Higgins' earlier work "The Eagle has Landed," a story about a small group of German paratroopers sent to England in 1943 to kidnap Winston Churchill. It picks up just after "Landed."

Heirich Himmler charges one of his SS generals with putting together a plot to break out the only survivor of the first mission, Lt. Col. Steiner, who's being held as a POW in London. General Schellenberg recruits former IRA gunman Liam Devlin, now in Lisbon, to run the operation in England. Devlin succeeds, with the help of a pair of down-on-their-luck English fascist sympathizers and one of Devlin's old IRA sleeper contacts in London. There's also a subplot of an attempted SS coup against Hitler, and Devlin & company's attempt to thwart it.

This book isn't quite on par with "Landed," but is a good read nonetheless. If you read "Landed," then you'd probably enjoy this book, although it did leave the issue of what happened to the survivors unresolved at the end, which sticks in my craw a little bit. I would have liked it better if Higgins had extended the epilogue and wrapped everything up, but it seemed he was leaving the door open for a third book in the series. I did think it was interesting how Higgins framed most of the narrative: The prologue and epilogue were set in the present day, as though an aging Liam Devlin was telling the story to Higgins.

I thought the most interesting character was Captain Asa Vaughn, an American pilot who fought the Soviets for the Finns, but when the Finns allied with the Germans, was given a choice: the SS or a concentration camp. He joined the SS, with the condition that he only fights on the Eastern Front. He's ordered to fly into England and exfiltrate Devlin and Steiner. I would have liked Higgins to go into some more detail about Vaughn and what happened to him after the war; what did he do with the rest of his life? Did he ever go back to the States? Oh well, I guess I'll just have to wait for Higgins to turn out the 3rd book to clear up this and my other questions.

If you liked "The Eagle has Landed," you like "The Eagle has Flown," but be prepared for some unresolved questions at the end.

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Summary: In the Eyes of the Nazi
Review: This Historical fiction, The Eagle has Flown is a sequel to Higgins previous novel The Eagle has Landed. The novel takes place in Europe during the last years of World War II. Higgins starts the novel with an investigation regarding the attempts on British Prime Minster Winston Churchill's life. The one in specific conducted by a Nazi, General Steiner of the SS from Germany. The mission was compromised and General Steiner the only survivor jailed in a priory run by a Father and several nuns. Himmler a senior SS orders his comrade General Schellenberg to conduct a rescue of the fallen prisoner of war. General Schellenberg contacts Liam Devlin a British Nazi, who knows Nazi sympathizers in London who will help plan the release of General Steiner. The mission is to sneak into the Priory and rescue Steiner but this mission was to busy the officers while extremist in the SS including Himmler would assassinate Hitler and organize a coup. The reason the SS wants to kill Hitler is not because of the tremendous war crimes but because of his careless and contradictory plans regarding the war that were hurting the German forces.

The novel in part of Higgins is well planned out and put together. There are several concepts that Higgins touched that are factual but omitted from history books and other novels. The concepts include the willingness of the German people to stop the war and the German officers who fought to protect and honor their country not Hitler. This novel has the great ability to pull you into the book and make your mind wonder in deep optimism for the Nazi, even though they were on the wrong hand in this bloody war. Higgins after getting a taste of sequels left this novel's end in great conflict with no definite closure, he must plan to continue the The Eagle series. This novel is recommended to those who like war read and who will not stress themselves over late World War II terminology contained in this novel.