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70th Anniversary Edition with a New Foreword by Sunday Times Bestselling Author Simon Sebag Montefiore

''A classic'' Observer ''A legend'' Washington Post ''The best book you will read this year'' Colonel Tim Collins

Posted to Moscow as a young diplomat before the Second World War, Fitzroy Maclean travelled widely, with or without permission, in some of the wildest and remotest parts of the Soviet Union, then virtually closed to foreigners. In 1942 he fought as a founder member of the SAS in North Africa. There Maclean specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq. In 1943 he parachuted into German-occupied Yugoslavia as Winston Churchill''s personal representative to Josip Broz Tito and remained there until 1945, all enemy attempts to capture him proving unsuccessful.

Eastern Approaches is Maclean''s classic, gripping

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One of the bravest men in the British army, and one of the funniest
An absorbing mixture of military adventure, political judgement, urbane wit, cool humour and surprising incident
A man of daring character

Eastern Approaches Fitzroy Maclean Penguin World

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 6 August 2009
      ISBN-13 9780141042848
      978-0141042848
      ISBN-10 0141042842
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      History General and world history Military History Modern warfare Second World War

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      70th Anniversary Edition with a New Foreword by Sunday Times Bestselling Author Simon Sebag Montefiore

      ''A classic'' Observer ''A legend'' Washington Post ''The best book you will read this year'' Colonel Tim Collins

      Posted to Moscow as a young diplomat before the Second World War, Fitzroy Maclean travelled widely, with or without permission, in some of the wildest and remotest parts of the Soviet Union, then virtually closed to foreigners. In 1942 he fought as a founder member of the SAS in North Africa. There Maclean specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq. In 1943 he parachuted into German-occupied Yugoslavia as Winston Churchill''s personal representative to Josip Broz Tito and remained there until 1945, all enemy attempts to capture him proving unsuccessful.

      Eastern Approaches is Maclean''s classic, gripping

      Trade Review
      One of the bravest men in the British army, and one of the funniest
      An absorbing mixture of military adventure, political judgement, urbane wit, cool humour and surprising incident
      A man of daring character

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