# Eastern Approaches

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- Book: [Eastern Approaches](https://www.bookquiver.com/fitzroy-maclean/eastern-approaches) ([Eastern Approaches.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/fitzroy-maclean/eastern-approaches.md))
- Authors: [Fitzroy MaClean](https://www.bookquiver.com/fitzroy-maclean)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-325-7
- Published: 2015-05-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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 . . .