'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy', 9780141987620
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Where Eagles Dare: Hilarious scene-by-scene dissection of a beloved war classic.
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  • Paperback

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    14 October 2018

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Summary

Broadsword Calling Danny Boy: A Hilarious Dive into ‘Where Eagles Dare’

An extremely funny, scene-by-scene analysis of the Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood film Where Eagles Dare, published as the film approaches its 50th anniversary.

Where Eagles Dare is both a thrillingly realized Alpine Second World War adventure – with tough, compelling acting from its two great stars – and a flippant travesty, infantilizing the central disaster in Europe’s modern history …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141987620
ISBN-10:0141987626
Author:Geoff Dyer
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:14 October 2018
Weight:94g
Dimensions:180mm x 112mm x 10mm
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Critics Review

Blissfully funny

Broadsword Calling Danny Boy is a hilariously funny, freewheeling rule-breaking wholly original scene-by-scene sprint through the crazy action from Where Eagles Dare. I defy anyone not to laugh at Dyer’s description of Clint Eastwood’s talent for squinting or when face-to-face with armed Nazis, ‘not just swinging but squinting in German’. – Craig Brown * Daily Mail, Books of the Year *Blissfully funny * Guardian *

About The Author

Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and numerous non-fiction books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The winner of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. M. Forster Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction, Dyer is a regular contributor to many publications in the UK and the US. He lives in California.

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