Eastern Approaches: Fitzroy Maclean - Brossura

MaClean, Fitzroy

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ISBN 10: 0141042842 ISBN 13: 9780141042848

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2009

Riassunto

Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq.

Maclean's extraordinary adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia are blistering reading and show what it took to be a British hero who broke the mould . . .

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Recensione:

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

L'autore:

Fitzroy Maclean was a British diplomat who was one of the first Westerners to explore Soviet Russia. He was a founder member of the SAS, and later liaised on behalf of the allies with the Partisans in Yugoslavia. A Member of Parliament for over thirty years, he served as Under-Secretary for War in the Churchill and Eden governments. Among his best-known books are Eastern Approaches, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Portrait of the Soviet Union, All the Russias and Highlanders. Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Bt, died on 15 June 1996.

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• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141042842
• ISBN 13: 9780141042848
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 576