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Fitzroy Maclean

    11 mars 1911 – 15 juin 1996

    Cet auteur est réputé pour ses récits captivants d'aventures et de guerre. Ses œuvres puisent dans de vastes expériences de première main, y compris des voyages, souvent incognito, à travers l'Asie Centrale et des combats dans le désert occidental. Il raconte avec vivacité son implication auprès d'unités d'élite de commandos et de mouvements partisans légendaires. Sa prose distinctive saisit l'intensité brute et l'immédiateté d'entreprises extraordinaires et souvent périlleuses.

    Fitzroy Maclean
    Highlanders
    Yugoslavia
    Illustrated National Histories: Scotland
    Scotland: A Concise History
    Nine Lives
    Eastern Approaches
    • Eastern Approaches

      • 576pages
      • 21 heures de lecture
      4,4(98)Évaluer

      After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Fitztroy Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. This book presents his adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia.

      Eastern Approaches
    • Nine Lives

      • 341pages
      • 12 heures de lecture
      4,0(21)Évaluer

      The men and women who slip beneath the world's radar and risk their lives for a cause - be it government, belief, country or money - command an irresistible hold over the imagination. This book tells the stories of nine remarkable spies. It also presents the characters and events that surrounded these nine legendary spies.

      Nine Lives
    • Scotland: A Concise History

      • 248pages
      • 9 heures de lecture
      3,7(255)Évaluer

      Fitzroy Maclean's classic work has been updated with a new chapter by Magnus Linklater, examining how Scottish identity is faring in the wake of the first Scottish Parliament for nearly 300 years. schovat popis

      Scotland: A Concise History
    • Illustrated National Histories: Scotland

      A Concise History - Revised Edition

      • 240pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      The Scots, said a censorious English member of Parliament in 1607, have not suffered above two kings to die in their beds these two hundred years. He may have exaggerated, but undeniably Scotland has a rough and bloodstained history. It is a complex one too, but Sir Fitzroy Maclean has disentangled the threads, and enlivened his brisk account with both wit and scholarship. Pictures from authentic contemporary sources illuminate his story - its romantic figures and bloody battles, its politics and religion - and provide a rich visual record of Scotland's art, craftsmanship and intellectual life.

      Illustrated National Histories: Scotland
    • Highlanders

      • 272pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      The Highlands of Scotland, and more specifically the clans that inhabit them, have a romantic resonance and mystery.

      Highlanders
    • Im Hochland Schottlands nahm der Seanchie oder Barde über Jahrhunderte hinweg am Hofe eines jeden Clan-Häuptlings einen Ehrenplatz ein. Die Geschichten und Balladen, die sie schufen, wurden von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben und büßten dennoch nichts von ihrem Zauber und ihrer Faszination ein. Fitzroy Maclean hat in diesem Buch nach seinem an Abenteuern reichen Leben die Rolle eines Seanachies angenommen und erzählt hier seine Lieblingsgeschichten von den Inneren und Äußeren Hebriden sowie aus seiner Heimat Argyll in Schottland, einer grünen, hügeligen Landschaft mit bizarren Felsen: Es sind verwegene Geschichten über Heldentum und Verrat und bezaubernde Erzählungen aus dem Reich der Geister und Feen. (Klappentext)

      Schottische Clangeschichten.