Twelve hundred British soldiers are isolated and waiting to die on the small island of Kheros, off the Turkish coast. all these lives could be saved if only the vigilant, savage and catstrophically accurate guns of Navarone could be silenced. Navarone itself is a grim iron fortress, manned by a mixed garrison of Germans and Italians. To Captain Keith Mallory,skilled saboteur and trained mountaineer, falls the task of leadig the small party to scale the vast, impossible precipice of Navarone to blow up the guns.