Eastern Approaches

Eastern Approaches
Front Book Cover
AuthorFitzroy Maclean
LanguageEnglish
SubjectWorld War II, Travel literature
GenreAutobiography
Publication date
1949
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePaperback
Pages550
OCLC6486798

Eastern Approaches (1949) is a memoir of the early career of Fitzroy Maclean. It is divided into three parts: his life as a junior diplomat in Moscow and his travels in the Soviet Union, especially the forbidden zones of Central Asia; his exploits in the British Army and SAS in the North Africa theatre of war; and his time with Josip Broz Tito and the Partisans in Yugoslavia.

Maclean was considered to be one of the inspirations for James Bond,[1] and this book contains many of the elements: remote travel, the sybaritic delights of diplomatic life, violence and adventure. The American edition was titled Escape To Adventure, and was published a year later. All place names in this article use the spelling in the book.