tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post115979504759092649..comments2024-03-15T12:16:33.202+00:00Comments on Nothing Tra La La?: Royale with cheese0tralalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06818587472660040921noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post-1159801608553919272006-10-02T16:06:00.000+01:002006-10-02T16:06:00.000+01:00It is said quite bluntly in one of the early books...It is said quite bluntly in one of the early books that Bond served with SOE during the war. Which fits with that dating and makes the idea of him being active any later than 1970, at the absolute outside, ludicrous. Cue the previously touted idea of Bond being a title.<BR/><BR/>Fleming knew his stuff of course: like Le Carre he had done his time in the intelligence services (an outfit nominally part of naval intelligence I think, eventually merged into MI6) and he almost got done for making the intro to From Russia With Love too accurate -more accurate than anyone outside the USSR should have been.Liadnanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00034530689776558675noreply@blogger.com