Alistair MacLean, the son of a minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read English at Glasgow University and became a teacher. Two and a half years spent aboard a wartime cruiser gave him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.
Sobre la sólida roca de un acantilado, cerca de las costas de Turquía, la pequeña isla de Keros acoge al ejército nazi. Allí se alza la inexpugnable fortaleza de Navarone, cuyos cañones, famosos por su mortal precisión, cierran el paso de sus aguas a cualquier barco que se atreva...
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