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Author | : Edward Abel Smith |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2020-05-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1526757729 |
Download Ian Fleming's Inspiration Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
James Bond is possibly the most well known fictional character in history. What most people don’t know is that almost all of the characters, plots and gadgets come from the real life experiences of Bond’s creator - Commander Ian Fleming. In this book, we go through the plots of Fleming’s novels explaining the real life experiences that inspired them. The reader is taken on a journey through Fleming’s direct involvement in World War II intelligence and how this translated through his typewriter into James Bond’s world, as well as the many other factors of Fleming’s life which were also taken as inspiration. Most notably, the friends who Fleming kept, among whom were Noel Coward and Randolph Churchill and the influential people he would mingle with, British Prime Ministers and American Presidents. Bond is known for his exotic travel, most notably to the island of Jamaica, where Fleming spent much of his life. The desk in his Caribbean house, Goldeneye, was also where his life experiences would be put onto paper in the guise of James Bond. As the island was highly influential for Fleming, it features heavily in this book, offering an element of escapism to the reader, with tales of a clear blue sea, Caribbean climate and island socialising. Ian Fleming might have died prematurely aged 53, but so much of him lives on to this day through the most famous spy in the world, James Bond.
Author | : Mark Simmons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781644281789 |
Download Ian Fleming's War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"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-dollar film franchise, now equipped with all the gizmos of the modern world. Yet Fleming's creation that battled his way through the fourteen Bond novels, from 1953-1966, 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 all the Bond books, and many were inspired by the real events and people Ian Fleming came across during his time in Naval Intelligence. In Fleming's 007, Mark Simmons explores these remarkable similarities. For example, Thunderball has a clear link to Operation Ruthless, Fleming's scheme to capture a German naval code book desperately wanted by the boffins at Bletchley Park. Also, the exploits of 30 Assault Unit, the commando team he helped to create, provided the inspiration for Moonraker. Both of these examples and many more are explored in this unique book"--
Author | : Craig Cabell |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2008-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1781598428 |
Download Ian Fleming's Secret War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While his extravagant and glamorous lifestyle is well known, little has been published concerning Ian Fleming's contribution during the Second World War. In the very early days of the War, Fleming was earmarked by the Director of Naval Intelligence as his 'right hand man'. From the outset he was in the center of events, meeting with key political and military figures as well as those of exceptional intelligence, experience and courage. All this was to give him invaluable background when he came to write the Bond novels. The author has uncovered through official documentation, private papers and contacts the depth of Fleming's work in Naval Intelligence. Fascinating insights of those he worked with and details of covert trips to Europe and North Africa emerge. Fleming was closely associated with 30 Assault Unit, a crack team of Commandos who took the fight to the enemy. The book reveals both the history of 30 AU and Fleming's role.
Author | : Leah Fleming |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2016-05-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0008184070 |
Download Orphans of War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The noise of bombs in the distance kept her awake... Nothing would ever be the same again.
Author | : Nicholas Rankin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199361118 |
Download Ian Fleming's Commandos Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Rankin tells the story of a secret intelligence outfit conceived and organized by Ian Fleming during World War II, named "30 Assault Unit", a group who was expected to seize enemy codebooks, cipher machines, and documents in high-stakes operations, and which inspired his creation of the James Bond character
Author | : Thomas Fleming |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0306821265 |
Download A Disease in the Public Mind Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fleming looks at the resons of why the Civil War was fought.
Author | : Gary Fleming |
Publisher | : Booksurge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Drug control |
ISBN | : 9781439204108 |
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The powerful truth behind the war on drugs and the consequences of allowing Mexico to be overtaken by the cartels.
Author | : David O'Keefe |
Publisher | : Icon Books |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2020-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785786318 |
Download One Day in August Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'A lively and readable account' Spectator 'A fine book ... well-written and well-researched' Washington Times In less than six hours in August 1942, nearly 1,000 British, Canadian and American commandos died in the French port of Dieppe in an operation that for decades seemed to have no real purpose. Was it a dry-run for D-Day, or perhaps a gesture by the Allies to placate Stalin's impatience for a second front in the west? Historian David O'Keefe uses hitherto classified intelligence archives to prove that this catastrophic and apparently futile raid was in fact a mission, set up by Ian Fleming of British Naval Intelligence as part of a 'pinch' policy designed to capture material relating to the four-rotor Enigma Machine that would permit codebreakers like Alan Turing at Bletchley Park to turn the tide of the Second World War. 'A fast-paced and convincing book ... that clears up decades of misinformation about the ignoble raid' Toronto Star
Author | : Thomas Fleming |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2001-03-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429973919 |
Download When This Cruel War Is Over Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
They called themselves Sons of Liberty--a revolutionary conspiracy that intended to form a new confederacy in the American heartland--and put an end to the American Civil War. Backed by the South, the Sons launch guerilla attacks against Union troops. The year is 1864, the place Indiana and Kentucky. A time of ruthless censorship, conscription, and a seemingly endless war that has left a half a million Americans dead. Union Major Paul Stapleton falls in love with Janet Todd, courier and evangelist for the Sons of Liberty. Another admirer, Colonel Adam Jameson, readies his Confederate cavalry division to support the Sons' revolt. The battle for the future of America is about to begin. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : Thomas Fleming |
Publisher | : New Word City |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 2015-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 161230933X |
Download Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"A superb retelling of the story of Valley Forge and its aftermath, demonstrating that reality is far more compelling than myth." - Gordon S. Wood The defining moments of the American Revolution did not occur on the battlefield or at the diplomatic table, writes New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming, but at Valley Forge. Fleming transports us to December 1777. While the British army lives in luxury in conquered Philadelphia, Washington's troops huddle in the barracks of Valley Forge, fending off starvation and disease even as threats of mutiny swirl through the regiments. Though his army stands on the edge of collapse, George Washington must wage a secondary war, this one against the slander of his reputation as a general and patriot. Washington strategizes not only against the British army but against General Horatio Gates, the victor in the Battle of Saratoga, who has attracted a coterie of ambitious generals devising ways to humiliate and embarrass Washington into resignation. Using diaries and letters, Fleming creates an unforgettable portrait of an embattled Washington. Far from the long-suffering stoic of historical myth, Washington responds to attacks from Gates and his allies with the skill of a master politician. He parries the thrusts of his covert enemies, and, as necessary, strikes back with ferocity and guile. While many histories portray Washington as a man who has transcended politics, Fleming's Washington is exceedingly complex, a man whose political maneuvering allowed him to retain his command even as he simultaneously struggled to prevent the Continental Army from dissolving into mutiny at Valley Forge. Written with his customary flair and eye for human detail and drama, Thomas Fleming's gripping narrative develops with the authority of a major historian and the skills of a master storyteller. Washington's Secret War is not only a revisionist view of the American ordeal at Valley Forge - it calls for a new assessment of the man too often simplified into an American legend. This is narrative history at its best and most vital.