Hitler's Lair / The Screaming Eagles, Leo Kessler, UK pb 2001

This paperback is two of Leo Kessler's novels in one volume 'Hitler's Lair and The Screaming Eagles' published by Pan Books in the UK in 2001. Book is in fair condition (see picture). 434 pages. Picture is of actual book.


SYNOPSIS: HITLER'S LAIR: 1945: In Berlin, the rats are fleeing the sinking ship. The Fuhrer is dead and his followers are fleeing for their lives. All save one: Standartenfuhrer Hackmann, Martin Bormann's principal SS aide. Hackmann knows that the last Melmer gold shipment has been sent by Hitler's Secretary Bormann to the Fuhrer's mountain refuge, the 'Eagle's Nest' in the Bavarian Alps. Bormann wants to use the looted gold for his own purposes. Hackmann, the fanatical Nazi, has other ideas: the gold will be smuggled out of the dying Reich to South America, where it will be used to finance the Fourth Reich. Mallory's Marauders, in Berlin to assassinate Hitler, learn of Hackmann's mission and set off southward in pursuit. Before them is a long dangerous journey through 'outlaw country', made doubly dangerous by Hitler's 'Werewolves', the underground Nazi Youth terrorist organisation at Hackmann's command. The chase is made more complicated by the fact that General 'Iron Mike' O'Daniels' US Thunderbolt division is also fighting its way to the Eagle's Nest, as well as General Leclerc's 2nd French Armoured Division. THE SCREAMING EAGLES: The 101st Airborne Division had been nicknamed "the Battered Bastards of Bastogne" after the German breakthrough into the Ardennes. Now, on Christmas Eve 1944, "Iron Mike" MacDonald and his men are ordered out on a desperate mission to save what's left of their crippled division.