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Eastern Approaches

Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond, and reading Eastern Approaches it`s easy to see why.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 make for thrilling reading and show what it took to be a British hero who broke the mould.