Classic Bond Forum

I tend to suspect Fleming wanted to tell the WW2 story, but was too close to the bone and had to re-write most of the story to conceal the truth of WW2. activities. Interesting. Was that information classified, even after WW2? I suspect it was more the case that he was inspired by the story, but ch...

Further to the mention of a Nazi atomic aircraft is this excerpt from the wartime BIOS Report #142

Casino Royale having too much humor?W.H.A.T.? :o :o I don't think CR and humor can go in the same sentence. This guy had absolutely no sense of humour himself, and thought that a Bond film should be completely devoid of humour, presumably so he could watch it in the cinema without being subjected t...

If you read a bit of WW2 history you will notice that there are elements of Goldfinger which resemble the laundering of Nazi looted Gold from Germany through Switzerland, via Lisbon by overland truck convoys to Wall street which occurred from 1941-1943 in defiance of the British Naval blockade. I te...

I have always understood that it was perfectly legal to pull off either a parody of another work or an artistic re-interpretation. Isn't it getting to the point now where studios are abusing the legal process in pursuit of unjust restraint of trade? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and in...

Ian Fleming moved to Jamaica after the War and lived next door to two other WW2 espionage figures Noel Coward and aviatrix Jean Batten. It is little known that Jean Batten worked with Fleming and William Stephenson in Sweden during 1939 setting up pro British spy rings in Sweden and also funneling a...

You may be interested that Commander Fleming infiltrated a Nazi underground nuclear complex at Espelkamp near Osnabruck in April 1945. Though all references to the actual mission remain classified it appears that 30AU Commando X-troop as Naval Party 1749 composed of German expatriates in SS uniform,...