Eastern Approaches (Penguin World War II Collection)

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 . . .

• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
• Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
• Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
• Past Forgetting: A Memoir of Heroes, Adventure, Love and Life with Fitzroy Maclean
• To the Back of Beyond: An Illustrated Companion to Central Asia and Mongolia
• Setting the East Ablaze
• Take Nine Spies
• Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe)
• Born of the Desert: With the SAS in North Africa
• Kim (Penguin Classics)