The Sea Eagle
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The Sea Eagle is a 1944 novel by Australian war correspondent and novelist James Aldridge.
Plot[]
Set in Axis-occupied Greece and Crete after the Nazi invasion during World War II, it follows the attempts of two Australian soldiers to make passage to Cairo with the help of Greek partisans.
Reception[]
Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1945 and hailed as "the finest work of fiction yet produced by the war" (G.W. Bishop in the London Daily Telegraph), it has since fallen into obscurity. His first novel, Signed With Their Honour (1942), was also set in war-time Greece.
Categories:
- 1944 Australian novels
- Novels set in Greece during World War II
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize-winning works
- Novels by James Aldridge
- Little, Brown and Company books
- Novels set in Crete
- Geography book stubs
- Australia stubs
- World War II novel stubs
- 1940s novel stubs