Word: macleans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacLeans to listen to insolent beggars," replied the local chieftain, Lachlan MacLean, but, he added, if the Spaniard would lend him 100 men-at-arms, he could have all the food he liked-provided he paid...
...Goes Donald. The agreement made, MacLean marched off with his Spaniards to ravage his ancient enemies, the MacDonalds, on the islands of Rum, Eigg, Canna and Muck. When he returned, the Spaniard announced that he was ready to set sail...
Escape to Adventure, by Fitzroy Maclean. A brigadier and Tory M.P. describes his prewar prowling in Russia, his commando escapades in the North African desert and his guerrilla life with Tito in one of the best personal-adventure books of World War II (TIME...
...Maclean's account of life with Tito takes up the most absorbing half of a wholly absorbing book. His prime duties as "Ambassador-leader" were, as Churchill explained, simply to find out which of the guerrilla forces-Tito's Partisans or Royalist General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks-was "killing the most Germans," and to "suggest means by which we could help them to kill more." It did not take Maclean long to conclude that, as a killer, Tito was deadly earnest, Mihailovich increasingly apathetic. Besides, reported Maclean, it was pretty clear that Tito's Partisans were...
From then until the fall of Belgrade, Brigadier Maclean shared the rugged guerrilla life. But from then on, too, his own life became more & more that of one of the "- ing cogs" in the "gigantic - organization" of Allied strategy. Chiefly as a result of his enthusiastic reports, his staff was enlarged to a small army of technicians, supply experts and liaison officers.* Amazed to find a Communist who acted with Tito's assurance and independence, Maclean questioned whether Tito would ever completely relapse into the normal Communist role of "blind unquestioning obedience" to the Kremlin...