Eastern Approaches

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Penguin UK, May 7, 2015 - Biography & Autobiography - 576 pages

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 . . .

 

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Contents

FOREWORD BY SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
INTRODUCTION TO THE PENGUIN EDITION
GOLDEN ROAD
INTERNATIONALE
THROUGH THE LOOKINGGLASS
CASTING ABOUT
TRIAL TRIP
TOUCH AND
LONG TRAIL
A PASSAGE TO PERSIA
NEW HORIZONS
BALKAN
INSIDE EUROPE
ARMS AND THE
ORIENTATION
ALARMS AND EXCURSIONS

CITIES OF THE PLAIN
WINTER IN MOSCOW
CHINESE PUZZLE
ALITTLE FURTHER X BOKHARA THE NOBLE
ACROSS THE OXUS
HOMEWARD BOUND
ORIENT SAND
FEET ON THE GRAVEL
SPECIAL AIR SERVICE
OUTWARD BOUND
SHORT WEEKEND
BACK TO BENGHAZI
ROAD TO THE ISLES
ISLAND INTERLUDE
BACK AND FORTH
OUTSIDE WORLD
TURNING POINT
BACK TO BOSNIA
NEW DEAL
CHANGE OF SCENE
ISLAND BASE AND BRIEF ENCOUNTER
RATWEEK XV RATWEEK
GRAND FINALE
WHO GOES HOME

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About the author (2015)

Fitzroy Maclean was a British diplomat who was one of the first Westerners to explore Soviet Russia. He was a founder member of the SAS, and later liaised on behalf of the allies with the Partisans in Yugoslavia. A Member of Parliament for over thirty years, he served as Under-Secretary for War in the Churchill and Eden governments. Among his best-known books are Eastern Approaches, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Portrait of the Soviet Union, All the Russias and Highlanders. Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Bt, died on 15 June 1996.

Bibliographic information

TitleEastern Approaches
Penguin World War II Collection
AuthorFitzroy MaClean
Editionreprint
PublisherPenguin UK, 2015
ISBN0241973252, 9780241973257
Length576 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Historical
History / Africa / General
History / Europe / General
History / Military / Special Forces
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
  
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