The Sea Eagle is a 1944 novel by Australian war correspondent and novelist James Aldridge.

[1] Set in Axis-occupied Greece and Crete after the Nazi invasion during World War II, it follows the attempts of two Australian soldiers to make passage to Cairo with the help of Greek partisans.

Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1945 and hailed as "the finest work of fiction yet produced by the war" (G.W.

After the novel's original publication by Wyatt and Watts in Melbourne, Australia, it was reprinted as follows: The novel was also translated into Swedish in 1944, German, French and Russian in 1945, Polish in 1949, Czech and Slovakian in 1955, Lithuanian in 1956, and Dutch in 1967.

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