Eastern Approaches

By
Fitzroy MacLean
Penguin Books Ltd
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 account of the

sybaritic delights of diplomatic life, the thrill of remote travel in the
then-forbidden zones of Central Asia, and the violence and
adventure of world-changing tours in North Africa and Yugoslavia.
Maclean is the original British action hero and this is blistering
reading.

'This book literally changed my life' Simon Sebag Montefiore

'A man of daring character' Winston Churchill

'An absorbing mixture of military adventure, political judgement,

 urbane wit, cool humour and surprising incident' Financial Times

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

'Entertaining, important, the model for James Bond' New York

Times

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