Eastern Approaches
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70th Anniversary Edition with a New Foreword by Sunday Times Bestselling Author Simon Sebag Montefiore
'A classic' Observer | 'A legend' Washington Post | 'The best book you will read this year' Colonel Tim Collins
Posted to Moscow as a young diplomat before the Second World War, Fitzroy Maclean travelledâŚ
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In the 1990s when I worked at the British Embassy in Moscow organising social functions I met a kind, elderly, white-haired man who came to visit the ambassador. Sir Fitzroy Maclean was a distinguished former diplomat, war veteran, politician, and writer, but still he found time to chat with a lowly staff member about Soviet history â and when he got home, he sent me his book. Eastern Approaches is a captivating memoir of Macleanâs diplomatic service in the USSR during Stalinâs Terror, when he sneaked undercover into Central Asia and experienced many escapades, including run-ins with the Soviet secretâŚ
From Joanna's list on to summon up the spirit of Central Asia.
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