Eastern Approaches
ISBN:
9780224611558 (0224611550)
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Military,
Russia,
Biography Memoir,
World War II,
Military History,
Egypt
A tripartite memoir of intrigue, travel, and military adventure, relating the author's experiences as a diplomat in the 1930's USSR, as a member of the early SAS (part of the UK Special Forces) in WWII North Africa, and finally as an important liaison to the Partisans in Yugoslavia, his two previous...
A TRULY FANTASTIC BOOK! Fitzroy Maclean writes very fluidly and engagingly of his experiences, first as a member of the British Foreign Service in the Soviet Union between 1937 and 1939, and of his leaving (not without difficulty) the Diplomatic Service for the Army, where he rose from the rank of...