Eastern Approaches

An absorbing mixture of military adventure, urbane wit, cool humour and surprising incident' - "Financial Times". 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. 'A classic. An unconventional man's unconventional war. The best book you will read this year' - Colonel Tim Collins. 'A classic' - "Observer".