Target Island is a 1944 war novel by the British writer John Brophy.

[2] While popular, it did not repeat the great success of Brophy's previous novel Immortal Sergeant set during the North African Campaign.

John Hampson writing in The Spectator gave it a fairly negative review alongside Vicki Baum's Berlin Hotel and noted "here again are major and minor figures, love-affairs, raids, and alarms, amid the panoply of modern war.

[3] In the event the novel was not adapted for the screen unlike several others of Brophy's work, although much of its settings and themes featured in the 1953 film Malta Story.

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