17F: The Life of Ian FlemingP. Owen, 1993 - 232 páginas Through his fictional creation, James Bond, Ian Fleming achieved world-wide fame. Fleming has been seen as the archetype for Bond, the jaunty, womanizing secret agent, a somewhat self-indulgent Englishman given to rich man's pursuits. In this book Donald McCormick, who knew Ian Fleming well, sets out to disprove the stereotype playboy image. Fleming was one of four brothers. His father, a Conservative MP with a Scottish background, was killed in the Army in 1917, when Ian was nine. Consequently his mother, a dominant personality, exerted a strong influence on him. After Eton, Fleming went on to Sandhurst, but withdrew to try for the Foreign Office. He failed to enter the latter and subsequently worked in the City. In the war he came into his own and served with distinction, notably as Personal Assistant to the Director of British Naval Intelligence, with the rank of commander - signing his memoranda with the code-name '17F'. After the war he became foreign manager for Kemsley Newspapers. Following his much-acclaimed first novel, Casino Royale, published in 1953, Bond books appeared regularly until his death in 1964. Donald McCormick reaches far and wide in this illuminating account of Ian Fleming's remarkable life, covering his wartime exploits and successful journalistic career as well as his marriage to Anne Rothermere and life at Goldeneye, his house in Jamaica. He shows Fleming as steadfast and loyal to others, but also as a restless man always seeking new talents in himself. Fleming's command of pace and innate romanticism, vital ingredients in his fiction, were ever present too in his many lifetime relationships and activities. |
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... Christine arrived by parachute , saying that ' I drop real well , comme un torchon , because I'm exactly like a wet dishcloth . ' 5 Officially attached to the WAAF service , Christine operated under SOE instructions with the code - name ...
... Christine arrived by parachute , saying that ' I drop real well , comme un torchon , because I'm exactly like a wet dishcloth . ' 5 Officially attached to the WAAF service , Christine operated under SOE instructions with the code - name ...
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... Christine for the first time at Bertorelli's restaurant in Charlotte Street . I learned this much one day when Fleming asked me to let him have clippings from the office library of any newspaper stories about Christine Granville and ...
... Christine for the first time at Bertorelli's restaurant in Charlotte Street . I learned this much one day when Fleming asked me to let him have clippings from the office library of any newspaper stories about Christine Granville and ...
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... Christine Granville . Billy ( W. Stanley ) Moss , another British agent who knew her and worked with her , said ... Christine had been regarded as a war hero , it seemed rather silly , especially as her deeds had been written about ...
... Christine Granville . Billy ( W. Stanley ) Moss , another British agent who knew her and worked with her , said ... Christine had been regarded as a war hero , it seemed rather silly , especially as her deeds had been written about ...
Contenido
Introduction | 9 |
The Ghost of a Dead Father | 21 |
From the City to the NID | 37 |
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