Papers of Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1827-1861, 1911-1966.

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Papers of Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1827-1861, 1911-1966.

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Papers consist of personal, literary, diplomatic and military correspondence, memoirs, articles, photographs, publishers contracts, manuscripts and typescripts, book reviews, speeches, lectures, transcripts of broadcasts, research material, honors and decorations and memorabilia. Topics of interest include eyewitness accounts of the Soviet purge trials; accounts of journeys, 1937-1938, through the southern periphery of the U.S.S.R. in the Caucasus and Central Asia; life in London during the Blitz; the British World War II mission to Tito and the Yugoslav resistance; the fate of Ukrainian and Croatian refugees; post-war Yugoslavia particularly Tito's break with Stalin and his decades in power; the Balkan resistance movement, 1972-1973; Balkan travel, 1950 through 1980s; McLean's parliamentary career in the House of Commons and his service as Undersecretary of State for war during the mid 1950s including the Suez crisis. Other items of special interest include a memo of an interview with Tito on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; an interview with Ante Markovi*c on Yugoslavia economic reform; letters of Joseph Wolff collected by Maclean; and the original "Rat Week" map of German military positions in Yugoslavia, 1944. Literary papers may contain drafts, setting copies, correspondence, research, reviews, and film treatments for Maclean's books, articles, and television series including "Eastern approaches," "Disputed barricade," "The battle of Neretva," "Tito : A pictorial biography," "A person from England," "Back to Bokhara," "To the Back of Beyond," "To Caucasus," "Holy Russia," "Portrait of the Soviet Union," Bukharin," "All the Russias" "A concise history of Scotland," "The Isles of the sea," "Bonnie Prince Charlie," "Highlanders," and "Take nine spies." With the literary papers are radio transcripts of BBC broadcasts; lectures and articles particularly on Scotland and on the U.S.S.R, including several on Gorbachev; and a file of obituary notices composed by Maclean. Maclean's extensive collection of photograph albums and slides includes images from Armenia, the Balkans, the Baltic states, Bukhara, Caucasus, Central Asia, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Leningrad, Mongolia, Moscow, Russia, Samarkand, Tajikstan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Volga River towns, and Yugoslavia, as well as Churchill, Thatcher, Tito and the Yugoslavian Army. Correspondents include Earl Alexander, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Elizabeth II, Mikhail Gorbachev, Hans Herwarth von Bittenfeld, Ian Fleming, Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Harold Macmillan, John Major, Montgomery of Alamein, Jasper Ridley, Margaret Thatcher, Evelyn Waugh, Harold Wilson, and Ardeshir Zahedi. A VIP correspondent file contains letters from Princes Margaret, the Queen Mother, Prince Charles, Clementine Churchill, Mary Churchill Soames, and Lauren Bacall as well as an autograph of Yuri Gagarin.

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