Ian Fleming's War The Inspiration for 007

In 1953, Ian Fleming's literary sensation James Bond emerged onto the world's stage. Nearly seven decades later, he has become a multi-billion-pound film franchise, now equipped with all the gizmos of the modern world. Yet Fleming's creation, who battled his way through the fourteen novels from 1953 to 1966, was a maverick - a man out of place. Bond even admits it, wishing he was back in the real war … the Second World War. Indeed, the thread of the Second World War runs through the whole of the Bond series, and many were inspired by the real events and people Fleming came across during his time in Naval Intelligence. In Ian Fleming's War, Mark Simmons explores these remarkable similarities, from Fleming's scheme to capture a German naval codebook that appears in Thunderball as Plan Omega, to the exploits of 30 Assault Unit, the commando team he helped to create, which inspired Moonraker.

ISBN:	9780750993265
Publisher:	The History Press
Imprint:	The History Press
Published date:	03 Aug 2020
DEWEY:	823.914
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	287
Weight:	590g
Height:	242mm
Width:	164mm
Spine width:	29mm

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