![]() ![]() In Fleming’s words: ‘The blubbery arms of the soft life had Bond round the neck and they were slowly strangling him. ![]() In this, they echoed the views of a generation brought up to think of Britain as Great, but now doomed in peacetime to watch the American ascendancy, decolonisation, queues, bureaucracy, socialism and other perceived indignities as the Empire declined. triumphed over Nazism, was becoming soft and irrelevant, a land of small minds and smaller dreams. In From Russia with Love, Bond’s war nostalgia is made explicit: ‘He was a man of war and when, for a long period, there was no war, his spirit went into a decline.’ Ian Fleming shared with his brother, Peter, a fear that Britain, having. ![]() As with Fleming himself, that war shaped and toughened him, and with the ending of that conflict, in common with many combatants, he finds himself adrift. Yet in many ways – in attitude, sensibility and even equipment – he is a creation of the Second World War. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: What reading level is For Your Eyes Only book? ![]()
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