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- 2015
- year of publication
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- Length
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- E-book
- Format
- Publisher
- Penguin
- ISBN-13
- 978-02-4197-325-7
- EAN
- 9780241973257
- Publication date
- 2015-05-07
- Book
- Eastern Approaches · 2 editions
The publisher on this edition
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 . . .
