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Thanks for uploading.

So these military men let 3 heavily armed men not only stay armed, but let them hijack their ships, makes no sense,

youtube "British Pathé Coal Mining 1920s - 1930s (1920-1939)" 6:40min

I’m sorry; I can’t listen to Mrs Hubbard anymore. I’m 2 hrs to end of book, but her grating, pitched voice is awful. I’ll finish the physical book. Poirot was perfect, as usual. Thank you

That was excellent. Indeed, superlative! 👍

Oh my gosh. Mrs Hubbard, literally, gave me a bad headache. Had to skip through the part w her & Poirot. The voice was Too loud and very irritating. Otherwise I loved the book. 📕

Missing chapter 2 not great as alot happens there

Just come to the end of this amazingly narrated audiobook! enjoyed every moment! but I'm afraid the comments I made at the start regarding the Lancaster go double for the Mosquito! No Co pilot but a navigator and only ever heard of ONE person being squeezed into the fuselage but NEVER FIVE!! hOWEVER THESE ARE MINOR GRIPES IN A GREAT STORY! tHANKS FOR POSTING!!

This is excellent - thanks! For listeners' possible convenience, approximate times of the beginning of the Chapters: Chapter 2 41:05 Chapter 3 1:16:40 Chapter 4 2:10:28 Chapter 5 2:57:33 Chapter 6 3:48:58 Chapter 7 4:29:35

Audio is fine. Ignore the ingrates.

Listening to this as jet fighters streak overhead, rattling the house. The Blue Angels, but one can imagine....

shame to interrupt the reading with a political statement…bad move

When the reader does his women voices, it's like nails on a chalkboard!

Interesting to hear the British reader do a credible imitation of President Reagan.

Orwell is world class on storytelling...his prose?...straight and clean...I have listened to three books now...this being the third...one book, coming up for air, I believe, was a great yarn...funny, sad...everything... This one and wigan pier tho...for 70 percent of the book...great...but the last 30 percent in both became nothing more than literary criticism of other writers... Boring...George?...I wish you would just be a storyteller

Great narration my friend! Loved the modulation, accent and pace. Please do dracula by Bram Stoker!

What a lovely, absolutely lovely narration! I started this book on 30th July after 12 at night and ended it today. 2 in the morning of 31 July. Totally love the way you added so much feel and emotion to each character. The accents, the emotions, the modulation...Wah a perfect masterpiece. 100/10 from me. Please also do and then there were none by agatha cristie as well. I am subscribing to you in hopes of finding more great narrations from you Mr. David!

Wow - excellent: thanks! For general convenience, Approximate times for beginnings of chapters: Chapter 2 36:33 Chapter 3 1:13:51 Chapter 4 1:32:46 Chapter 5 2:24:01 Chapter 6 3:02:46 Chapter 7 3:42:21 Chapter 8 4:10:07 Chapter 9 4:53:19 Chapter 10 5:31:11 Chapter 11 6:14:18 Chapter 12 6:45:34 Chapter 13 7:16:48 Epilogue 7:58:42

Good story well read thank you

There's no ending, it just stops when she's giving it to him when he gets back.😮😮😮😮 HELP SOMEONE PLEASE.

4:58pm Saturday

The Wikipedia article, "The Guns of Navarone", says " The success of the book's film adaptation prompted Alistair MacLean to write the only sequel of his writing career, Force 10 from Navarone (1968). However, in areas where they differ, this is a sequel to the film, not the book."

Francis Mathews......a great actor.

I enjoyed it.

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What a phenomenal job the narrator did impersonating so many characters. Riveting story and well read!

This narrator is just too good❤

Do not start this unless you have access to the text! Part of the way through the Second Part, in chapter 14, pages and pages of text have been left out!

Do not bother to start unless you have access to a copy of the book (like 'Texts to Borrow' at the Internet Archive)! Around 1:29:46 pages and pages of the book are left out!

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I never realized David Sucette was so creative and I am amazed at this. It’s like listening to a play! Well done!

You guys are gay

What a wonderful reader ❤❤❤great book as well.

Loved listening to this audio book. When i was a kid i grew up in the 80s and early 90s watching the old war films with my dad. Sad they dont air them very often anymore, one used to be on every week. I loved the Where Eagles Dare film and read the book when i was about 12. Tried to get my teen sons to watch the films with me but because the films are 'old' they arent interested! Sad really especially when they were so brilliantly written and we actually had heros to look up to. Films now are badly written and there are no heros now.

Audio so bad it's unlistenable.

Begins with Chapter 11. Last sentence with text cut off at the end of the chapter:"A five-year-old - the earth exploded beneath his feet, a giant hand plucked him up and smashed him to the ground and the darkness closed over him." Chapter 12 begins around 22:32

First time listening after seeing the film several times. Must confess to being a bit puzzled? The Lancaster only has one pilot and set of controls, the right hand side has a folding chair for the Flight Engineer NOT a second pilot. Also there is no room in a Lanc for so many men to stand in a line and the exit door is not big enough to expel paratroopers from!! Mr MacLean is a gifted writer but it seems he needs help in some departments? However I shall carry on listening to and hopefully enjoying this very well narrated audiobook,

Kenneth Williams narration is 🤤🤤 TOP

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Well done! 😂 I’m at 2:22 and dying of laughter. You are a brilliant actor. So appreciate you and have always followed you since day one of the Poirot Mysteries. Your readings are just as good as watching! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Part 1 Chapter 1 00:35 Chapter 2 18:23 Chapter 3 32:28 Chapter 4 46:50 Chapter 5 53:36 Chapter 6 1:15:27 Chapter 7 1:27:58 Chapter 8 1:47:00 Part 2 Chapter 1 1:53:42 Chapter 2 2:02:46 Chapter 3 2:10:49 Chapter 4 2:20:01 Chapter 5 2:34:25 Chapter 6 2:43:00 Chapter 7 2:56:00 Chapter 8 3:05:43 Chapter 9 3:19:46 Chapter 10 3:30:46 Chapter 11 3:37:42 Chapter 12 3:45:24 Chapter 13 3:56:11 Chapter 14 4:10:36 Chapter 15 4:23:33 Part 3 Chapter 1 4:51:07 Chapter 2 5:04:04 Chapter 3 5:14:12 Chapter 4 5:32:02 Chapter 5 5:44:11 Chapter 6 5:52:48 Chapter 7 5:57:09 Chapter 8 6:04:07 Chapter 9 6:16:01

I have read this book repeatedly since the 70s. Everytime I hear something new. I understand more each time although I have never seen a movie of the book. Alistair M is my favourite author EVER

Excellent.

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*Spoilers** At the center of this story lies the question of 'What if one does not get justice meted or in a court of law?' The case in this story was that of Daisy Armstrong's kidnapping and murder. It was based on the true life story of the Charles Lindbergh's 20- month old son's kidnap and murder. It caused an international sensation at the time because Colonel Charles Lindbergh had just become the first aviator to fly nonstop from New York, USA to Paris, France, in his single manned aircraft, The Spirit Of St. Louis. He was married to the celebrated Anne Morrow-Lindbergh. In this story Ratchett/Cassetti was narrowly released from the jury's death sentence. Some of the telling lines were when Ratchett/Cassetti's secretary, McQueen, was said to have explained how Ratchett/Cassetti used his money to get off, "it was he who explained to us exactly how Cassetti’s money had managed to get him off." Which speaks of judicial corruption. This was skirted around in various other analysis of this story, which emphasize that the twelve concerned members either committed murder, or an act of vigilantism. That overlooks that having been denied justice, the twelve seek to restore justice. They carry out the sentence that the jury gave and perform the execution themselves. "We decided then and there ... that the sentence of death that Cassetti had escaped had got to be carried out." It was an important distinction. It was important because there was a world of difference between murder, the unlawful and wrongful taking of an innocent life, and execution, the lawful taking of a criminal's life after having a court trial. Also, it was an important distinction between vigilantism and execution. Vigilantism had components of personal revenge and of taking the law into one's own hands, but an execution has neither of those components due to the trial by a jury of peers. The lack of personal revenge as well as the justice restored were important themes of this story. Best told in Mrs. Hubbard's speech at the end in which she reveals that this had happened to other children before Daisy Armstrong and would have happened to other children in the future had Ratchetti/Cassette been allowed to live. " ... there had been other children kidnapped before Daisy, and there might be others in the future. Society had condemned him - we were only carrying out the sentence." Therfore, it becomes obvious to the reader and to M. Bouc, the director of the railway line, that the twelve carried out the jury's decision in which they had recommended the death sentence. (In the 1930s, juries decided the death penalty, however, that was done away with in modern times.) In modem times the sentence is later decided by a judge. But in the case in this story, the judge later decided to rescind the jury's death sentence and to release the criminal, which indicates judicial corruption. (It could be argued in another essay, that to allow judges to provide sentencing sometime after the jury trial, may allow for this corruption to happen when 'the world' isn't watching making judicial corruption less noticeable.) However, judicial corruption was so noticeable in this story that M. Bouc decided that justice, in the form of carrying out the jury's death sentence, has been done. M. Bouc evidently agreed that the twelve had to do what was done to prevent further kidnapping and murders from being done to other children by this hardened criminal. He decided to present M.Poirot's first solution to the Yugoslavian police. In the case of Mr. Lindbergh, a carpenter who was involved in the kidnapping was executed by electric chair. However, it was evident that the carpenter had neither planned the kidnapping, nor had made the decision to murder the child. The 1974 film version veers away from the book in two significant ways; it references the mafia. Organized crime was/is believed to be behind many such kidnappings as part of their business model. Also the film had M. Poirot leaving the train car saying that he must go wrestle with his conscience, but he had no such qualms in the book. Those are the significant ways in which the movie veers from the book, another way it veered was the way in which the film version normalizes divorce by having Mrs. Hubbard refer to her two husbands and Colonel Arbuthnot referred to his impending divorce. Neither of which are in the book as divorce was rare then. In the book, Mrs Hubbard refers to "My daughter always said ... " and the Colonel had no explanation he could offer for the meaning of Miss Debenham's statement of, "Not now. Not now. When is all over. When it's behind us - then-" Although that, perhaps, was just for better theater.

Brilliant and still relevant. The more things change the more they stay the same.

Ends of chapters: just checked the end of chapter 3 in a "Texts to Borrow" scan in the Internet Archive: no text missing. It should be possible to check like this in every case, and read any little bit, if anything does get left out.