Where Eagles Dare

UK precedes US and is the true first: Collins, London, 1967. The US first is Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1967, and is collected as the American first. MacLean was a Collins author from HMS Ulysses (1955) onward and the Collins issue is the trade's accepted true first. The novel was MacLean's own novelization of his screenplay, so the 1968 film postdates the book. "First thus" traps: the Collins Fontana paperback (1968, 219 pp.) and the Fawcett Crest paperback (1968, 207 pp.) are reprints, as are the film tie-in issues.