Fitzroy Maclean (SIGNED COPY) To Caucasus : Companion to Transcaucasia 1st 1976

To Caucasus, the End of the Earth
An Illustrated Companion to the Caucasus and Transcaucasia

By Fitzroy Maclean

INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1976. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Hardback book in dust jacket. pp. 204 (last blank), with numerous illustrations.

CONDITION
A very good signed first edition. The dust jacket remains unclipped and in very good condition. All contents present and pages clean throughout. Overall a very good signed first edition.

Brigadier Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, 1st Baronet, KT, CBE (11 March 1911 – 15 June 1996) was a British Army officer, writer and politician. He was a Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) from 1941 to 1974 and was one of only two men who during the Second World War enlisted in the British Army as a private and rose to the rank of brigadier, the other being future fellow Conservative MP Enoch Powell.

Maclean wrote several books, including Eastern Approaches, in which he recounted three extraordinary series of adventures: travelling, often incognito, in Soviet Central Asia; fighting in the Western Desert campaign, where he specialised in commando raids behind enemy lines; and living rough with Josip Broz Tito and his Yugoslav Partisans while commanding the Maclean Mission there. It has been widely speculated that Ian Fleming used Maclean as one of his inspirations for James Bond.

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