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Eastern approaches

Tue, 20 May 2025 17:35:31 +0000

Eastern approaches (Time reading program special edition). 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 CollinsPosted 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

Eastern Approaches

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:36:23 +0000

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.

Escape to adventure

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 08:10:45 +0000

The author was a Scottish soldier, writer and politician. Issued in Britain under the title Eastern Approaches, this book is Maclean’s account of his experiences as a diplomat and military officer and his first years as a member of Parliament. It has been widely speculated that Ian Fleming used Maclean as one of his inspirations for James Bond. This is the classic true adventure story of a man who by the pen, the sword and the diplomatic pouch influenced some of the most significant events of our era. Here Fitzroy Maclean recounts his extraordinary adventures in Soviet Central Asia, in the Western Desert, where he specialized in hair-raising commando-style raids behind enemy lines, and with Tito’s partisans during the last months of the German occupation of Yugoslavia. An enthralling narrative, brilliantly told, it is also a vivid personal view of episodes that have already become part of history.

Jugoslavija

Sat, 09 Jan 2021 13:06:49 +0000

Uvod napisao Fitzroy Maclean. Izdavači : Revija, Beograd i Thames and Hudson, London. 11 fotografija u boji, 205 c/b fotografija.

Rat na Balkanu

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 01:21:19 +0000

Pijesak Orijenta

Sat, 25 Jan 2020 17:43:50 +0000

Memoarska proza bivšeg šefa britanske vojne misije u Jugoslaviji

Rat na Balkanu

Sun, 16 Jun 2019 16:02:30 +0000

Tito

Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:44:50 +0000

Fotomonografija

Zlatni drum; Pijesak Orijenta; Rat na Balkanu

Thu, 06 Jun 2019 13:02:39 +0000