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A Telegraph, Evening Standard and Daily Mail Book of the Year

From the acclaimed writer and critic Geoff Dyer, an extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of Where Eagles Dare - published as the film reaches its 50th anniversary

A thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a coolly anachronistic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous. ´Broadsword Calling Danny Boy´ is Geoff Dyer´s tribute to the film he has loved since childhood: an analysis taking us from its snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax. For those who have not even seen Where Eagles Dare, this book is a comic tour-de-force of criticism. But for the film´s legions of fans, whose hearts will always belong to Ron Goodwin´s theme tune, it will be the fulfilment of a dream.

´Geoff Dyer´s funniest book yet. Who else would work in Martha Gellhorn on the first page of a book on the film Where Eagles Dare?´ Michael Ondaatje

´One of our greatest living critics, not of the arts but of life itself, and one of our most original writers´ Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine

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Broadsword Calling Danny Boy is a hilariously funny, freewheeling rule-breaking wholly original scene-by-scene sprint through the crazy action from Where Eagles Dare. I defy anyone not to laugh at Dyer´s description of Clint Eastwood´s talent for squinting or when face-to-face with armed Nazis, ´not just swinging but squinting in German´. Craig Brown Daily Mail, Books of the Year

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Dyer, Geoff
Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and numerous non-fiction books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The winner of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of Photography´s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography, the American Academy of Arts and Letters´ E. M. Forster Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction, Dyer is a regular contributor to many publications in the UK and the US. He lives in California.

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