5 Top action books like Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean, Clint Willis

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Where Eagles Dare

By: Alistair MacLean , Clint Willis

3.44

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Forbidding peaks, resourceful commandos, beautiful spies, nonstop action, and neck-snapping plot tw…

If you liked the action plot in Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean, Clint Willis , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Bomber

By: Len Deighton

4.19

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

The classic novel of the Second World War that relates in devastating detail the 24-hour story of a… read more

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  • adventure
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • thriller
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2. The Odessa File

By: Frederick Forsyth

4.14

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: a Mafia-like organi… read more

Similar categories in Frederick Forsyth's The Odessa File book and Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • action
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3. The Quiller Memorandum

By: Adam Hall

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

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Similar categories in Adam Hall's The Quiller Memorandum book and Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of What It is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes

4. What It is Like to Go to War

By: Karl Marlantes

4.00

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Matterhorn, this is a powerful nonfiction book abo… read more

Similar categories in Karl Marlantes's What It is Like to Go to War book and Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare

  • war
"Thinking you might be crazy can drive you crazy."

-Karl Marlantes, What It is Like to Go to War

"The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission."

-Karl Marlantes, What It is Like to Go to War

"Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body"

-Karl Marlantes, What It is Like to Go to War

"Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death."

-Karl Marlantes, What It is Like to Go to War

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5. Where Eagles Dare

By: Alistair MacLean , Clint Willis

3.44

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Forbidding peaks, resourceful commandos, beautiful spies, nonstop action, and neck-snapping plot tw… read more

Similar categories in Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare book and Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • action
Cover of Night of the Fox (Dougal Munro and Jack Carter #1) by Jack Higgins

6. Night of the Fox (Dougal Munro and Jack Carter #1)

By: Jack Higgins

3.49

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

On a secret sea maneuver just before D-Day, American Colonel Hugh Kelso goes down in the English Ch… read more

Similar categories in Jack Higgins's Night of the Fox (Dougal Munro and Jack Carter #1) book and Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare

  • espionage
  • adventure
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • thriller
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7. The Eagle Has Flown (Liam Devlin, #4)

By: Jack Higgins

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

As an increasingly isolated and insane Hitler pursues his hopeless war, betrayal and treachery reac… read more

Similar categories in Jack Higgins's The Eagle Has Flown (Liam Devlin, #4) book and Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • action
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8. Fields of Fire

By: James Webb

4.07

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1978, Webb's classic novel of the Vietnam War follows three soldiers from d… read more

Similar categories in James Webb's Fields of Fire book and Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare

  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Das Boot

By: Lothar-Günther Buchheim , None

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

It is autumn, 1941, and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous pat… read more

Similar categories in Lothar-Günther Buchheim's Das Boot book and Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare

  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

10. Running Blind

By: Desmond Bagley

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

It all begins with a simple errand - a package to deliver. But for Alan Stewart, standing on a dese… read more

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11. The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1)

By: Jack Higgins

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Desperate Adolf Hitler orders the impossible: kidnap or kill Winston Churchill. A disgraced war her… read more

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12. The Dogs of War

By: Frederick Forsyth

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Knocking off a bank or an armored truck is merely crude. Knocking off an entire republic has, I fe… read more

Similar categories in Frederick Forsyth's The Dogs of War book and Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • war
  • fiction
  • action
"Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire"

-Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War

"… Shannon’s fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool."

-Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War

"The natives who saw him walking alone, and later brought him back to the town for burial, said he was whistling when he went. Being simple peasants, growers of yams and cassava, they did not know wha…"

-Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War

13. The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Universe, #4)

By: Tom Clancy

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Here is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so… read more

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14. The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne, #2)

By: Robert Ludlum

3.59

Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A killer with no face, no identity and a name the world wanted to forget:Jason Bourne Reenter the s… read more

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15. The Wolf at the Door (Sean Dillion, #17)

By: Jack Higgins

4.36

Format: None pages,

On Long Island, a trusted operative for the president nudges his boat up to a pier, when a man mate… read more

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16. Spy Hook (Bernard Samson, #4)

By: Len Deighton

1.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Bernie Sampson, ex-field man, now a paper-pushing intelligence officer, is sent on a fool's errand … read more

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17. The Day of the Jackal

By: Frederick Forsyth

4.27

Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. The Jackal. A tall, blond… read more

Similar categories in Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal book and Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad."

-Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

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18. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

By: K.G.E. Konkel

4.32

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more

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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

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19. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 470 pages, ebook

Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Kramer's A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One book and Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare

  • war
"Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

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20. Magenta

By: John Payton Foden

4.27

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Magenta is a harrowing journey into war-torn Sarajevo, and into the blackest reaches of the human c… read more

Similar categories in John Payton Foden's Magenta book and Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare

  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"There was a story out there, in a scary place, and she had to bear witness."

-John Payton Foden, Magenta

"She polished her words like smooth river rocks lying perfectly organized in brilliant rainbow shades under crystal clear, slow moving water."

-John Payton Foden, Magenta

"Stefan, please, get to work.  Take a picture of this. You want a photo? Of this? War in all its ugliness.  A Pulitzer Prize awaits. You want me to document a war crime? Your war crime? Yes.  I do. Yo…"

-John Payton Foden, Magenta

"Stefan with his camera at the ready photographed a church and mosque and synagogue reduced to a cross and a crescent and a star, solitary monuments to what people once believed.  They silently passed…"

-John Payton Foden, Magenta

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21. The Lonely Skier

By: Hammond Innes

3.71

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Neil Blair is relishing an expenses-paid holiday in the Italian Dolomites, where he plans to finish… read more

Similar categories in Hammond Innes's The Lonely Skier book and Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare

  • action
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • adventure
"The studios seem to think people go to the cinema to listen. They don’t. They go to watch."

-Hammond Innes, The Lonely Skier

"What was there in gold? Little bricks of a particularly useless metal—no more. It had no intrinsic value, save that its rarity made it suitable for use as a means of exchange. Yet, though inanimate, …"

-Hammond Innes, The Lonely Skier

12 must-read fiction books like Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean, Clint Willis

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Bomber

Len Deighton

4.19

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The Odessa File

Frederick Forsyth

4.14

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The Quiller Memorandum

Adam Hall

3.80

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Where Eagles Dare

Alistair MacLean , Clint Willis

3.44

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Once an Eagle

Anton Myrer

4.39

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Matterhorn

Karl Marlantes

3.30

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Fields of Fire

James Webb

4.07

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Magenta

John Payton Foden

4.27

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