18 books like The Eagle has Flown

What to read after The Eagle has Flown — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Eagle has Landed Henry Patterson · 1975 · ★ 4.2 · 362p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In November of 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers descends on British soil with a diabolical goal: to abduct Winston Churchill and cripple the Allied war effort. The mission, ordered by Hitler himself and planned by Heinrich Himmler, is led by ace agent Kurt Steiner and aided on the ground by IRA gunman Liam Devlin Shares: Devlin, Germany, Secret service, World War II

Red Rabbit Tom Clancy · 1998 · ★ 3.8 · 636p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Jack Ryan's first days with the CIA may be the Pope's last days alive. Long before he was President or head of the CIA, before he fought terrorist attacks on the Super Bowl or the White House, even before a submarine named Red October made its perilous way across the Atlantic, Jack Ryan was an historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine temporarily living in England while researching a book. A… Shares: Popes, Assassination attempts, Attempted assassination

The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth · 1971 · ★ 4.3 · 377p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In a class by itself. Unputdownable' Sunday TimesOne of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the O. A. S., to assassinate General de Gaulle. The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his… Shares: Assassination attempts, Attempted assassination, Assassins

City of gold Len Deighton · 1992 · ★ 3.6 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate "The pace of the story is compulsive . . . it is a real pleasure to be swallowed up in Deighton's description of wartime Cairo."—Daily TelegraphJanuary 1942. Rommel, the fabled "Desert Fox," has pushed back the British Army three hundred miles in a matter of weeks. His seemingly invincible Afrika Korps is at the gates of Egypt, soon to threaten Cairo itself. And Rommel has a spy in the city—a… Shares: World War II, World War, Spy Fiction

The Key to Rebecca Ken Follett · 1980 · ★ 4.0 · 341p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Roman over een Duitse spionageoperatie tijdens de oorlog in de Noordafrikaanse woestijn in 1942. Shares: Secret service, World War II, World War, Spy Fiction

To die in spring Ralf Rothmann · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 209p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "The lunacy of the final months of World War II, as experienced by a young German soldier. Distant, silent, often drunk, Walter Urban is a difficult man to have as a father. But his son -- the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel -- is curious about Walter's experiences during World War II, and so makes him a present of a blank notebook in which to write down his memories. Walter dies, however,… Shares: Germany, World War II, World War

The Spymasters W. E. B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV · 2012 · ★ 4.1 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Summer 1943. Two of the Allies' most important plans for winning World War II are at grave risk - Operation Overlord's invasion of France, and the Manhattan Project's race to build the atomic bomb. A furious FDR turns to OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan - and Donovan turns to his top agent, Dick Canidy, and his team. Their work is cut out for them. In the weeks to come they will fight not only the… Shares: Secret service, World War II, World War, Spy Fiction

Potsdam Station David Downing · 2010 · ★ 4.5 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The third in the 'John Russel' series of novels, set in WWII Berlin. Shares: Secret service, World War II, World War, History

Horizon, a novel Helen MacInnes · 1946 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A wartime story of conflicting emotions and loyalties. Some Tyrolean citizens, north and south, sick of being under Italian rule, look to the Nazi invasion as a liberation, their promises of freedom as something worth fighting for. Other wiser heads, including liberated POW Roy know the Nazi's treachery. Roy is holed up for 8 months in a family home as liaison between the local resistance and… Shares: World War II, World War, Spy Fiction

Eye of the Storm Henry Patterson · 1982 · ★ 3.9 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Moderate An explosive New York Times bestseller from the author of The Eagle Has Landed. A British prime minister's life hangs in the balance as a deadly game of cat-and-mouse unfolds between a terrorist and an American working for British intelligence. Shares: Devlin, Secret service, Assassins

Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials Telford Taylor · 1992 · ★ 4.0 · 703p · ≈ 23h · Moderate A long-awaited memoir of the Nuremberg war crimes trials by one of its key participants. In 1945 Telford Taylor joined the prosecution staff and eventually became chief counsel of the international tribunal established to try top-echelon Nazis. Telford provides an engrossing eyewitness account of one of the most significant events of our century. (Source: Penguin Random House) Shares: Germany, History

The Valhalla exchange Henry Patterson · 1976 · ★ 3.9 · 253p · ≈ 8h · Moderate One of the most intriguing war fiction ever written...the perfect blend of the gruesome realities of war and captivating fiction plot that takes you from the war ravaged Berlin to the serene Bavarian alps where another war is being fought...the war between humanitarian emotions and military discipline...two men Both of the same thoughts in opposite uniforms..the truth about how men in power use… Shares: Germany, World War II, World War

XPD Len Deighton · 1657 · ★ 3.8 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Demanding “A stunning spy story… incomparable.” – The GuardianIt’s 1979, and a group of former SS officers are devising a plan to seize power in West Germany. XPD is a brilliant novel constructed around a supposition that Churchill secretly met with Hitler in 1940 to discuss terms of a British surrender. British agent Boyd Stuart is intent on preventing those wartime documents from becoming public. XPD –… Shares: Secret service, World War II, World War, Spy Fiction

Our Game John le Carré · 1995 · ★ 3.7 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Tim Cranmer, retired secret servant and Larry Pettifer, bored radical don, philanderer and for 20 years Tim's mercurial double agent against the now vanished Communist threat, have an unresolved rivalry that dates back decades. They follow each other to Moscow and then Southern Russia. Shares: Secret service, Intelligence service, Spy Fiction

Assassini Thomas Gifford · 1924 · 643p · ≈ 21h · Challenging Mientras el Papa agoniza, se producen una serie de misteriosos asesinatos, un ex-jesuita y una monja averiguan estrategias políticas inconfesables, confabulaciones que desde tiempos de los Borgia se dan en la Iglesia Católica Shares: Popes, Assassins

Der Vorleser Bernhard Schlink · 1995 · ★ 3.8 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Sie ist reizbar, rätselhaft und viel älter als er … und sie wird seine erste Leidenschaft. Sie hütet verzweifelt ein Geheimnis. Eines Tages ist sie spurlos verschwunden. Erst Jahre später sieht er sie wieder. Die fast kriminalistische Erforschung einer sonderbaren Liebe und bedrängenden Vergangenheit. Auf dem Nachhauseweg gerät der fünfzehnjährige Michael Berg in eine heikle Situation. Eine… Shares: Germany, World War II, World War, History

The Silence of Ghosts Jonathan Aycliffe · 2013 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Dominic Lancaster hoped to prove himself to his family by excelling in the Navy during World War II. Instead he is wounded while serving as a gunner and loses his leg. Still recovering from his wounds and the trauma of his amputation when the Blitz begins, Dominic finds himself shuffled off to the countryside by his family, along with his partially deaf sister, Octavia. The crumbling family… Shares: World War II, World War

Greenmantle John Buchan · 1915 · ★ 3.7 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Challenging In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot, Greenmantle himself, modelled on Lawrence of Arabia. The intrepid four move in… Shares: Secret service, Intelligence service, World War, Spy Fiction

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