Eastern Approaches
Author Fitzroy Maclean
Publisher Pan Books (this edition)
Year 1956 (this edition)
ISBN n/a
Language English
Binding Softback
Pages 416
Size:111x177mm (4.125x7in)
Price £2 (this edition)
When you’re an only kid, a cricket bat is of limited use but, on the other hand, a good book is like a magic carpet that quickly introduces the reader to a host of companions. Some of them are remarkable individuals too including Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, 1st Baronet, KT, CBE (1911-1996). He was merely Fitzroy Maclean, Esq when I stumbled across him in the school holidays as I picked up a Pan paperback off my parents’ bookshelf. At first glance he seems to be one of those well heeled, public schoolboys with previous at Eton and Cambridge but there was much more to his character than that. Despite being a member of the Scottish landed gentry, a descendant of the MacLeans of Ardgour and a member of the diplomatic service, when World War Two started, he enlisted in the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. Technically, he was prevented from joining the military because of his position as a diplomat so he resigned from the Diplomatic Service ‘to go into politics.’ After this he took a taxi to…
