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5 unusual facts about Force 10 From Navarone


Force 10 From Navarone

The novel was adapted into the 1978 film Force 10 from Navarone after years of delays by the film studio, directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach, Edward Fox and Franco Nero.

Force 10 From Navarone was commercially very successful, spending five months on the New York Times Bestseller List and being chosen as a Literary Guild Alternate Selection.

They're to go to the Neretva area of Bosnia to discover why, in recent weeks, every Allied agent parachuted into that area has been captured.

JŽ class 441

One example made an appearance coming out of a tunnel towards the end of the movie Force 10 From Navarone.

The Guns of Navarone

Force 10 From Navarone, a 1968 novel by Alistair MacLean, sequel to The Guns of Navarone


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Alistair MacLean's 1968 thriller novel Force 10 From Navarone, subsequently filmed, also brings forth the fight of outnumbered Partisans against Germans and Chetniks, and the blowing up of the Neretva bridge.


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