Robert Harling

Ian Fleming (eBook, ePUB)

A Personal Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Forged during the Second World War, the close and abiding friendship of Robert Harling and Ian Fleming, one of the twentieth century's most iconic authors, would go on to define the lives and literature of both men significantly.

Their paths first crossed in 1939, and Harling later became Fleming's deputy in the commando unit dubbed 'Fleming's Secret Navy', which was tasked with obtaining equipment, codebooks and intelligence from the enemy. The war made fast friends of the two writers, and Fleming would go on to immortalise Harling in his hugely popular Bond novels Thunderball and The Spy Who Loved Me.

Yet beneath the pair's charm, charisma and creativity was an altogether darker reality. Documenting in vivid detail his private exchanges with Fleming, Harling exposes the personality behind his protagonist - one tempered by debilitating bouts of depression and a deep-rooted distrust of women.

This extraordinary memoir provides a fascinating and unprecedented insight into the mind of the creator of James Bond - from one of those who knew him best.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785905599
• Artikelnr.: 58476855

Autorenporträt

Robert Harling's post-war career included twenty-eight years as editor of House & Garden magazine and almost forty as The Sunday Times's celebrated typographic adviser. He was the author of some eighteen books of fiction and non-fiction. He died in 2008.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Foreword by Fiona MacCarthy OBE 1 Weekly Intelligence
Report 2 Recall from Western Approaches 3 Travels and travails 4 Rendezvous
with 30AU 5 Preludes to D-Day 6 A brush with D-Day 7 A Fleming clash 8 A
first whisper of Bond 9 Probes and problems 10 Ramble to Kelmscott 11
Beginning of the end 12 Variant journeys 13 To the Elbe 14 A querying
interlude 15 Trondheim finale 16 Fleming goes solo 17 Return to fresh
starts 18 East Anglian reflections 19 Double lives 20 Goldeneye gambol 21
Fleming as publisher 22 Debut of Bond 23 Chez Fleming 24 Transatlantic
headhunting 25 Octagons of friendship? 26 Metropolitan encounters 27 Legal
and locale defeats 28 Flemings in Vogue 29 Farewells too soon 3 Index