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Ian Fleming's Inspiration
James Bond is possibly the most well known fictional character in history. What most people don’t know is that almost all of the characters, plots and gadgets come from the real life experiences of Bond’s creator - Commander Ian Fleming. In this book, we go through the plots of Fleming’s novels explaining the real life experiences that inspired them. The reader is taken on a journey through Fleming’s direct involvement in World War II intelligence and how this translated through his typewriter into James Bond’s world, as well as the many other factors of Fleming’s life which were also taken as inspiration. Most notably, the friends who Fleming kept, among whom were Noel Coward an...
The British Oskar Schindler
When Nicholas Winton canceled his skiing holiday in favor of going to Prague to visit a friend, little did he know this decision would change the course of thousands of lives, including his own. As millions of Jewish families attempted to flee the growing clutches of the brutal Nazi war of terror, this twenty-nine-year-old stockbroker decided to act, pulling off one of the most remarkable rescue missions of the century. The British Oskar Schindler tells the story of this remarkable man’s life and those around him who helped him to achieve all he did.
Active Goodness
The remarkable true story of how three British heroes saved thousands of endangered Czech men, women, and children from the Nazis at the beginning of World War II. When university lecturer Doreen Warriner visited Prague in the winter of 1938, she was appalled at the sight of so many suffering people, all desperately trying to flee Hitler's death squads. Along with Trevor Chadwick and Nicholas Winton, the evacuation of over 7,000 people was organised in under ten months, with the rescuers putting themselves in huge personal danger. This is their story.
Lewis Edward Smith
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