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The Secret Ways is a 1961 American thriller ___MASK61___ based on Alistair MacLean ' s novel " The Last ___MASK63___ ". It stars Richard Widmark . Alistair Stuart MacLean ( 21 ___MASK34___ 1922  2 ___MASK17___ 1987 ) was a ___MASK38___ novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories . His works include " The Guns of Navarone ", " Ice ___MASK16___ Zebra " and " Where Eagles Dare "  all three were made into popular films . He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart . Where Eagles Dare is a British 1968 ___MASK52___ II action film starring Richard Burton , Clint Eastwood , Mary Ure , and Ingrid Pitt . It was directed by Brian G . Hutton and shot on ___MASK75___ in Austria and Bavaria . Alistair MacLean wrote the novel and the ___MASK87___ , at the same ___MASK68___ . It was his first ___MASK87___ ; both film and ___MASK67___ became commercial successes . Richard Weedt Widmark ( ___MASK79___ 26 , 1914March 24 , 2008 ) was an American film , stage and television actor and producer . The Last ___MASK63___ is a novel written by ___MASK38___ author Alistair MacLean , and was first published in 1959 . It was released in the United States under the title The Secret Ways . This novel marks MacLean ' s first foray into the espionage thriller genre , and was inspired by the events surrounding the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 . Written in the third person narrative , MacLean described the physical and political surroundings with more attention than he has in previous novels , and there are moments when MacLean purposely slows the action down to build character development . ___MASK93___ is the ___MASK72___ for any story or universe derived from imagination  in other words , not based strictly on ___MASK40___ or fact . ___MASK93___ can be expressed in a variety of formats , including writings , live performances , films , television programs , animations , video games , and role - playing games , though the term originally and most commonly refers to the narrative forms of literature ( see " literary " fiction ), including the novel , novella , short story , and ___MASK35___ . ___MASK93___ constitutes an act of creative invention , so that faithfulness to reality is not typically assumed ; in other words , fiction is not expected to present only characters who are actual people or descriptions that are factually true . The context of fiction is generally open to interpretation , due to fiction ' s freedom from any necessary embedding in reality ; however , some fictional works are claimed to be , or marketed as , historically or factually accurate , complicating the traditional distinction between fiction and non - fiction . ___MASK93___ is a ___MASK72___ or category , rather than a specific mode or genre , unless used in a narrower sense as a synonym for a particular literary fiction form . A ___MASK69___ or story is any ___MASK44___ of connected events , real or imaginary , presented in a sequence of written or spoken words , and / or still or moving images . A ___MASK8___ is a long ___MASK69___ , normally in ___MASK60___ , which describes fictional characters and events , usually in the form of a sequential story . ___MASK60___ is a form of language that exhibits a grammatical ___MASK95___ and a natural flow of speech , rather than a rhythmic ___MASK95___ as in traditional poetry . Where the common unit of verse is based on meter or rhyme , the common unit of prose is purely grammatical , such as a sentence or ___MASK10___ . Nazi Germany is the common ___MASK73___ for the ___MASK74___ in German ___MASK40___ from 1933 to 1945 , when Germany was governed by a dictatorship under the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ). Under Hitler ' s rule , Germany was transformed into a fascist state in which the Nazi Party took totalitarian control over nearly all aspects of life . The official name of the state was " Deutsches Reich " from 1933 to 1943 and " Großdeutsches Reich " (" Greater German Reich ") from 1943 to 1945 . The ___MASK74___ is also known under the names the Third Reich and the National Socialist Period ( abbreviated as " NS - Zeit "). The Nazi regime came to an end after the Allied Powers defeated Germany in May 1945 , ending World War II in Europe . ___MASK52___ II ( often abbreviated to WWII or WW2 ), also known as the Second ___MASK52___ , was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 , although related conflicts began earlier . It involved the vast majority of the world ' s nations  including all of the great powers  eventually forming two opposing ___MASK21___ alliances : the Allies and the Axis . It was the most widespread war in ___MASK40___ , and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries . In a state of " total war ", the major participants threw their entire economic , industrial , and scientific capabilities behind the war effort , erasing the distinction between civilian and ___MASK21___ resources . Marked by mass deaths of civilians , including the Holocaust ( in which approximately 11 million people were killed ) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres ( in which approximately one million were killed , and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities . These made ___MASK52___ II the deadliest conflict in human ___MASK40___ . The ___MASK11___ People ' s Republic was a socialist state that administered Hungary from 20 August 1949 until 23 October 1989 . It was governed by the Socialist Workers ' Party , which was under the influence of the Soviet Union . The state remained in existence until 1989 when opposition forces consolidated in forcing upon the ___MASK45___ to abandon communism . The state considered itself the heir to the ___MASK11___ Soviet Republic , which was formed in 1919 as the first communist state created after Soviet Russia . It was designated a people ' s democratic republic by the Soviet Union in the 1940s . Geographically , it bordered Romania and the Soviet Union to the east ; Yugoslavia to the south - west ; Czechoslovakia to the north and Austria to the west . The ___MASK11___ Revolution of 1956 or the ___MASK11___ Uprising of 1956 ( or ) was a nationwide revolt against the ___MASK45___ of the ___MASK11___ People ' s Republic and its Soviet - imposed policies , lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956 . Though leaderless when it first began , it was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR ' s forces drove out Nazi Germany from its territory at the end of World War II and broke into Central and Eastern Europe .