Eastern Approaches
Author | : Fitzroy MaClean |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2015-05-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780241973257 |
ISBN-13 | : 0241973252 |
Rating | : 4/5 (252 Downloads) |
Download or read book Eastern Approaches written by Fitzroy MaClean and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 . . .