Ian Flemming facts
While investigating facts about Ian Fleming and Ian Fleming Novels, I found out little known, but curios details like:
James Bond originally used a Beretta 418 until a fan of the novels (and small arms expert) wrote to Ian Flemming criticizing it as "a woman's gun". When Flemming had Bond switch to his iconic Walther PPK in Dr. No, he wrote the fan into the scene as MI6's armorer
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In the James Bond novels, M's real name is Miles Messervy. In contrast, Q is never named and actually never appears in Ian Flemming's novels.
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In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 8 of the best facts about Ian Fleming Books and Ian Fleming Jamaica I managed to collect.
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The life story of Dušan "Duško" Popov, triple agent during World War II who worked for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, MI6 and the Nazis. During his lifetime he had an affair with French actress Simone Simon and was the inspiration for Ian Flemming's James Bond.
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Some elements of Bond 007 stories had real life background,taken from people whom the writer Ian Flemming knew. Flemming took the spy's name from American ornithologist James Bond and 007 was used as German diplomatic code. Some of Bond's character replicate those of Fleming himself
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James Bond author Ian Flemming wanted “a really flat quiet name” for his hero and stole the name from an ornithology bible he loved; Birds of the West Indies by JAMES BOND
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Operation Mincemeat, the WW2 British deception plan, was proposed by James Bond writer Ian Flemming; who got the idea from a spy fiction novel.
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TodayILearned: Late Christopher Lee was the cousin of Ian Flemming, Who wrote James Bond: The man with the golden gun. Christopher played the role of Francisco Scaramanga on that movie
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Casino Royale' was actually the first James Bond novel published by Ian Flemming.
