A History of the Highland Clans

Highlanders

The history of the highland clans, and the glorious highlands of Scotland

Fitzroy Maclean was a Scottish diplomat, soldier, adventurer, politician and writer. During World War II he was posted to Yugoslavia as Churchill's personal representative and Commander of the Mission with Tito's partisans. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre (France), Order of Kutuzov (Russia) and Partisan Star (Yugoslavia). In 1993 he was created a Knight of the Thistle, Scotland's highest chivalric order. 
 
Eastern Approaches, the account of his experiences in Russia and Central Asia before the war, has sold more than a million copies in seven languages. His other books include a History of Scotland and a biography of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

The Highlands of Scotland, and more specifically the clans that inhabit them, have a romantic resonance and mystery. Fitzroy Maclean recounts their extraordinary history, from their Celtic origins to Robert the Bruce, the wars of independence and Bannockburn, from Flodden, Mary Queen of Scots to the Jacobite Risings of the eighteenth century, the nineteenth-century Clearances and the modern day. 
 
Highlanders sheds light on the motivation and character of the clans, bringing vividly to life their highly dramatic stories. Never before has there been such a thorough and well-balanced view of Highland history.

Fitzroy MaClean

One of the bravest men in the British army, and one of the funniest

An absorbing mixture of military adventure, political judgement, urbane wit, cool humour and surprising incident

Posted to Moscow as a young diplomat before the Second World War, Fitzroy Maclean travelled widely, with or without permission, in some of the wildest and remotest parts of the Soviet Union, then virtually closed to foreigners. In 1942 he fought as a founder member of the SAS in North Africa. There Maclean specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq. In 1943 he parachuted into German-occupied Yugoslavia as Winston Churchill's personal representative to Josip Broz Tito and remained there until 1945, all enemy attempts to capture him proving unsuccessful. 
 
Eastern Approaches is Maclean's classic, gripping account of the sybaritic delights of diplomatic life, the thrill of remote travel in the then-forbidden zones of Central Asia, and the violence and adventure of world-changing tours in North Africa and Yugoslavia. Maclean is the original British action hero and this is blistering reading.

Fitzroy MaClean

Praise for Eastern Approaches

One of the bravest men in the British army, and one of the funniest

An absorbing mixture of military adventure, political judgement, urbane wit, cool humour and surprising incident

A man of daring character

One of the bravest men in the British army, and one of the funniest

An absorbing mixture of military adventure, political judgement, urbane wit, cool humour and surprising incident

A man of daring character

One of the bravest men in the British army, and one of the funniest

An absorbing mixture of military adventure, political judgement, urbane wit, cool humour and surprising incident

A man of daring character

Books by Fitzroy MaClean

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