Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Keeping Spain Out of World War II Simmons Mark
"Detailed [...] readers with a deep interest in WWII will find this rewarding." -- Publishers WeeklyThis book tells the story of the various Allied operations and schemes instigated to keep Spain and…
Specifikacia Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Keeping Spain Out of World War II Simmons Mark
"Detailed [...] readers with a deep interest in WWII will find this rewarding." -- Publishers WeeklyThis book tells the story of the various Allied operations and schemes instigated to keep Spain and Portugal out of WWII, which included the widespread bribery of high ranking Spanish officials and the duplicity of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr.Ian Fleming and Alan Hillgarth were the architects of Operation Golden Eye, the sabotage and disruption scheme that would be put in place had Germany invaded Spain. Fleming visited the Iberian Peninsula and Tangiers several times during the war, arguably his greatest achievement in WWII and the closest he came to being a real secret agent. It was these visits which supplied much of the background material for his fiction - Fleming even called his home on Jamaica where he created 007
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