The Eagle Has Flown
9 hrs. 27 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Jack Higgins
Author
Jack Higgins
Narrator
Vyacheslav Gerasimov
Narrator
Vyacheslav Gerasimov
At one in the morning on Saturday, November 6, 1943, the head of the Gestapo of fascist Germany, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, received a short message: “The Eagle has landed.” That meant that a small group of German airborne troops led by Lieutenant Colonel Kurt Steiner, with the assistance of an operative from the Irish Republican Army (IRA) Liam Devlin, had secretly entered England and was ready to begin an operation to capture the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, who had arrived for Saturday and Sunday at his country home on the seacoast in Norfolk. By the end of the same day, as a result of fierce fighting between an American “rangers” unit and the German airborne troops, the operation ended in failure; it was believed that among the entire parachute force, only Liam Devlin remained alive. As for Kurt Steiner…
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