70th Anniversary Edition with a New Foreword by Sunday Times Bestselling Author Simon Sebag MontefioreA 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 hairraising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axiscontrolled Iraq. In 1943 he parachuted into Germanoccupied Yugoslavia as Winston Churchills personal representative to Josip Broz Tito and remained there until 1945, all enemy attempts to capture him proving unsuccessful.Eastern Approaches is Macleans classic, gripping account of the sybaritic delights of diplomatic life, the thrill of remote travel in the thenforbidden zones of Central Asia, and the violence and adventure of worldchanging 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 MontefioreA man of daring character Winston Churchill An absorbing mixture of military adventure, political judgement, urbane wit, cool humour and surprising incident Financial TimesOne of the bravest men in the British army, and one of...

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