Talk:The Guns of Navarone (novel)

Biggest guns?
The article asserts that Leros had "among the largest naval artillery guns used during World War II". This is incorrect. The heaviest guns in the Italian fortifications were eleven 152mm (6") guns (source: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=170900). As a comparison, German fortifications on the Atlantic coast had a number of 460mm (16"), 380mm (15") and 280mm (11") guns, Russian and Finnish forts had 305mm (12") guns, and American coastal batteries had 16" (406mm) guns. Various British and Commonwealth coastal installations also had larger guns of various ages and calibers up to 15". The 152mm gun would be considered a "medium" calibre as far as coastal artillery is concerned. The book suggests that the Navarone guns were "twelve-inch bore if an inch", suggesting the WWI 30.5 cm SK L/50 gun (qv.) used in Imperial German battleships and (during WWII) a couple of fortifications on the North Sea and in France. Throwing a 400kg shell over 40 km and a 250kg shell over 50 km, these guns were way beyond anything the (originally Italian) coastal batteries on Leros ever had.--Death Bredon (talk) 15:34, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep in mind this article is about a fictional novel, it is not intended to be an accurate historical reference source. Any reference to the guns in the article must be based on the description given in the book. This article is not about the real historical guns of Leros, it is about the fictional guns of Navarone.Mediatech492 (talk) 20:17, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Citations needed
This article has no citations except for a dead link supporting the name of the cover artist. I don't see anything obviously contradicting my 30 year old memory of the novel. A statement like this one, however, needs a citation to a professional review: "Its three principal characters — New Zealand mountaineer-turned-commando Keith Mallory, American demolitions expert "Dusty" Miller, and Greek resistance fighter Andrea – are among the most fully drawn in all of MacLean's work." Vox Sciurorum (talk) 12:44, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Sequel
Kenixkil (talk) 02:52, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Sam Llewellyn
 * "Storm Force from Navarone" and "Thunderbolt from Navarone"