Eastern Approaches
  • Published: 7 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241973257
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 576

Eastern Approaches

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7 May 2015
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The original British action hero

Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq.

Maclean's extraordinary adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia are blistering reading and show what it took to be a British hero who broke the mould . . .
  • Published: 7 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241973257
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 576
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About the author

Fitzroy Maclean

Fitzroy Maclean was a Scottish diplomat, soldier, adventurer, politician and writer. During World War II he was posted to Yugoslavia as Churchill's personal representative and Commander of the Mission with Tito's partisans. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre (France), Order of Kutuzov (Russia) and Partisan Star (Yugoslavia). In 1993 he was created a Knight of the Thistle, Scotland's highest chivalric order.

Eastern Approaches, the account of his experiences in Russia and Central Asia before the war, has sold more than a million copies in seven languages. His other books include a History of Scotland and a biography of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

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Praise for Eastern Approaches

One of the bravest men in the British army, and one of the funniest

Ben Macintyre

An absorbing mixture of military adventure, political judgement, urbane wit, cool humour and surprising incident

Financial Times

A man of daring character

Winston Churchill