ETA: You have to presume "Went the Day Well" is a very conscious source for Deighton's "The Eagle Has Landed".
I have not read that! Recommended?
Apparently I'm wrong, it's not Len Deighton, it's Jack Higgins. I've not read it, however I have seen the film, repeatedly - John Sturges directs, Michael Caine is the lead as Steiner, the discredited German paratroop officer dropped into the UK with a handful of men disguised as Polish paras in order to kill Churchill. Donald Sutherland is Liam Devlin, their IRA contact (a Higgins regular, and later mentor to his main series character, the assassin Sean Dillon), Jenny Agutter is the love interest, and a whole host of British stalwarts turn up to play the locals, plus Larry Hagman and Treat Williams as the American Rangers arriving to save the day (or not). Donald Pleasance delivers a disturbing turn as Himmler. Definitely worth watching. A major difference from 'Went the Day Well' is that the focus is on the Germans, rather than the Brits.
I have seen 'The One Who Got Away', to the point that I instantly said 'Hardy Kruger'. On a similar theme, I'd recommend 'The McKenzie Break'. With some basis in fact, it's Bryan Keith sent in to investigate what's happening in a remote PoW camp, where the German submariners are Up To Something.
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Apparently I'm wrong, it's not Len Deighton, it's Jack Higgins. I've not read it, however I have seen the film, repeatedly - John Sturges directs, Michael Caine is the lead as Steiner, the discredited German paratroop officer dropped into the UK with a handful of men disguised as Polish paras in order to kill Churchill. Donald Sutherland is Liam Devlin, their IRA contact (a Higgins regular, and later mentor to his main series character, the assassin Sean Dillon), Jenny Agutter is the love interest, and a whole host of British stalwarts turn up to play the locals, plus Larry Hagman and Treat Williams as the American Rangers arriving to save the day (or not). Donald Pleasance delivers a disturbing turn as Himmler. Definitely worth watching. A major difference from 'Went the Day Well' is that the focus is on the Germans, rather than the Brits.
I have seen 'The One Who Got Away', to the point that I instantly said 'Hardy Kruger'. On a similar theme, I'd recommend 'The McKenzie Break'. With some basis in fact, it's Bryan Keith sent in to investigate what's happening in a remote PoW camp, where the German submariners are Up To Something.