Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet

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Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, 1st Baronet (11 March 1911 – 15 June 1996), was a British Army officer, writer and politician. Before World War II, he served as a diplomat, after which point he enlisted, and distinguished himself on several fronts. He was a Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) from 1941 to 1974. Maclean wrote several books, including his memoirs Eastern Approaches, in which he recounted three extraordinary series of adventures: travelling, often incognito, in Soviet Central Asia; fighting in the Western Desert campaign, where he specialised in commando raids behind enemy lines; and living rough with Josip Broz Tito and his Yugoslav Partisans while commanding the Maclean Mission there. It has been widely speculated that Ian Fleming used Maclean as one of his inspirations for James Bond.

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