How long does it take to read Where Eagles Dare?
Alistair MacLean, Norah Woollard
Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean, Norah Woollard takes about 5 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 11 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1967. 283 pages, about 77,825 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 37 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One winter night, seven men and a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their objective: an apparently inaccessible castle, headquarters of the Gestapo. Their mission: to rescue a crashed American general before the Nazi interrogators can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans.
Subjects: British, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Special forces (Military science), Thriller, Austria, fiction
