- A Cage of Eagles
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name = A Cage of Eagles
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author =James Follet
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country =United States
language = English
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genre = Thriller
publisher =Routledge
pub_date = 1989
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media_type = Print (Paperback )
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isbn = ISBN 0413192008
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followed_by ="A Cage of Eagles" is a
1989 thriller byJames Follet , taking place at1941 in the POW Camp atGriezedale Hall at England'sLake District , where some of the most capable of the German officers captured by Britain were kept (and constantly plotted escape).Plot introduction
The book centers on the battle of wits and the ambiguous relationship developing between
U-boat ace Otto Kruger, leader of the captured Germans, andIan Fleming in his real-life WWII role as an intelligence officer which would later inspire theJames Bond books. It ends on December 1941, with an open-ended conclusion clearly leaving the possibility of a sequel.Allusions and references
Allusions to actual history
The camp depicted existed in reality, and much of the book is based on real-life information gathered by Follet in the course of writing an earlier book, the
1979 novelU-700 .
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