Fitzroy Maclean (1911–1996)
Auteur van Vlucht in het avontuur : zijn avonturen in Sovjet Centraal Azië, Noord-Afrika en in Joegoslavië bij Tito's partizanen
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Vlucht in het avontuur : zijn avonturen in Sovjet Centraal Azië, Noord-Afrika en in Joegoslavië bij Tito's partizanen (1949) 723 exemplaren
Disputed Barricade: The Life And Times Of Josip Broz-Tito, Marshal Of Jugoslavia (1957) 26 exemplaren
LUFTA E BALLKANIT 2 exemplaren
UDHA E ARTE 2 exemplaren
Vojna na Balkanu 1 exemplaar
A Person From England 1 exemplaar
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- Maclean, Fitzroy
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- MacLean of Dunconnel, Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle, 1st Baronet
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- 1911-03-11
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1996-06-15
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- Strachur Parish Churchyard, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
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- Cairo, Egypt
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- Strachur, Scotland
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- Paris, France
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- Eton College
University of Cambridge (King's College) - Beroepen
- soldier
politician
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hotel manager
Member of Parliament
diplomat - Relaties
- Maclean, Lady Veronica (wife)
Maclean, Charles (son) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Baronet (1957)
Order of the Thistle ( [1994])
Order of the British Empire (Commander)
Order of Kutuzov
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Very entertaining, mainly because of the circumstances Maclean found himself in; Central Asia and the Soviet Union at a time when it was mostly closed to outsiders, the the doubly treacherous North African desert during wartime, installed with the radical Partisans in Yugoslavia as the fought against German occupation.
As for the man himself, I guess we come from different generations is all. I was mostly impressed by his tremendous bravery (in the most neutral sense of the word) and his broad intellect when dealing with far-flung cultures and peoples. When he mentioned near the beginning of the book that he was able to chat up the Russian border guards with the Russian he had learned in Paris nightclubs, I knew I was dealing with a special kind of person. His political opinions, which are liberally sprinkled thru this account, I don’t exactly share, but he was able to judge people for their worth as human beings and not get weighed down in ideology.
I was also struck by the tremendous impassibility with which he recounted the tremendously violent events that take place in the last third of the book. I guess that’s how we know we are dealing we a career soldier here. That mixed with a healthy dose of British stiff chin allows Maclean to dryly describe gawking civilians being blithely shelled into oblivion in Belgrade during the battle to liberate the city without much, if any emotion. This isn’t necessarily a criticism. After all, this was the war for the claim to the future of civilization, but I think the 21st century reader is much more conditioned by a climate of extreme fear of and distrust of resorting to combat.… (meer)