THE HERETIC (436 pp.)—Fitzroy Maclean—Harper ($5.95). When Tito and his partisans were fighting for their lives against the encircling Germans in the hills of Bosnia, they radioed urgent appeals for ...
A PERSON FROM ENGLAND, AND OTHER TRAVELERS TO TURKESTAN (314 pp.)—Fitzroy Maclean—Harper ($5). This book is a reverent and amusing hymn to a handful of adventurers who penetrated the bone-littered ...
1. Fitzroy Maclean was brought up in Italy, educated at Eton and Cambridge, served in the diplomatic service in Paris, then was posted to the British embassy in Moscow. With the advent of World War II ...
Sir Fitzroy Maclean, who persuaded British leader Winston Churchill to back Yugoslav Communist chief Tito and his partisans in World War II, has died, his family said Monday. He was 85. Sir Fitzroy, a ...
BELGRADE (Reuters) - In his 1949 memoir Eastern Approaches, British officer Fitzroy Maclean wrote of standing on top of Belgrade's fortress and watching the Nazis retreat across the River Sava, ...