Eastern Approaches  (English, Paperback, MaClean Fitzroy)

'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 . . .

'One of the best narratives of action ever written'  Punch

'A classic'  Observer