Eastern Approaches

The Memoirs of the Original British Action Hero

By: Fitzroy Maclean

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Paperback | 6 August 2009 | Edition Number 1

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576 Pages

Age
7 - 8

Grade
2 - 3

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3.2 x 13 x 19.8

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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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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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Introduction to the Penguin Edition	p. 1
Acknowledgements	p. 7
Golden Road
Internationale	p. 11
Through The Looking-Glass	p. 18
Casting About	p. 30
Trial Trip	p. 38
Touch and Go	p. 52
Cities of the Plain	p. 65
Winter in Moscow	p. 80
Chinese Puzzle	p. 122
A Little Further	p. 138
Bokhara the Noble	p. 145
Across the Oxus	p. 155
Homeward Bound	p. 168
Orient Sand
Feet on the Gravel	p. 183
Special Air Service	p. 190
Outward Bound	p. 199
Short Weekend	p. 216
Back to Benghazi	p. 226
Long Trail	p. 242
A Passage to Persia	p. 263
New Horizons	p. 275
Balkan War
Inside Europe	p. 303
Arms and the Man	p. 308
Orientation	p. 317
Alarms and Excursions	p. 342
Road to the Isles	p. 357
Island Interlude	p. 366
Back and Forth	p. 378
Outside World	p. 388
Turning Point	p. 401
Back to Bosnia	p. 415
New Deal	p. 427
Change of Scene	p. 442
Island Base and Brief Encounter	p. 457
Ratweek -I. Plan	p. 470
Ratweek - II. Fulfilment	p. 484
Grand Finale	p. 498
Who Goes Home?	p. 515
Index	p. 533
Illustrations
The Kremlin	p. 265
The Silk Road
The Middle East: Sas Patrol
Leaving Siva
Long-Range Desert Group
Tito
Bosnia: In the Woods
Bosnia: All Round, the Snow Lay Deep
Dalmatia
Sir Fitzroy with Tito (on left)
Bokhara - First Light
Maps
Central Asia	p. 11
The Western Desert	p. 183
Jugoslavia	p. 303
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