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The Eagle Has Landed is a 1976 British war film directed by John Sturges, and starring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall.. Based on the 1975 novel The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins, the film is about a fictional German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill in the middle of the Second World War.
The Eagle Has Landed is a book by British writer Jack Higgins, set during World War II and first published in 1975. [1] It was quickly adapted into a British film of the same name , released in 1976.
Its plot concerns a German commando unit sent into England to kidnap Winston Churchill. The main character is arguably an Irish gunman and poet, Liam Devlin. Higgins followed The Eagle Has Landed with a series of thrillers, including several (Touch The Devil, Confessional, The Eagle Has Flown) featuring the character Devlin.
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In the 1975 novel The Eagle Has Landed, Devlin has recovered from his wounds and is teaching Irish language literature at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin.He is then approached by Colonel Radl of the Abwehr and recruited into a secret mission to kidnap Winston Churchill.
The Eagle Has Flown is a book by Jack Higgins, ... It is a sequel to The Eagle Has Landed. [1] [2] [3] ... the plot is surrounded with a prologue and epilogue.
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The Eagle Has Landed may refer to: The Eagle Has Landed, 1975 novel by Jack Higgins The Eagle Has Landed, 1976 film based on the novel; The Eagle Has Landed, 1982 album by the band Saxon The Eagle Has Landed, 1983 song by the band Saxon on Power & the Glory; The Eagle Has Landed – Part II, 1996 album by the band Saxon