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'For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond', Book to accompany Fleming exhibition in April '08

Qwerty View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 002175 \| Posts: 79973 Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York	3 September 2007 - 01:56 Post #1
	Now on the CBn main page... 'For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond' Listed On Amazon Book to accompany Fleming Centenary exhibition coming in April '08 'For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond' Now Shipping Order online at amazon.co.uk 'For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond' Released In US Order online at Amazon.com Ben MacIntyre Book Signing, 14 May Author of 'For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming And James Bond' 'For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond' Paperback Coming In 2009 Ben Macintyre's companion book for Ian Fleming centenary exhibition ~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other ♦ D of the CBn Four *♦ ♦ ♦ Are You Ready To Go? ♦ ♦ ♦*

Qwerty View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 002175 \| Posts: 79973 Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York	31 October 2007 - 17:47 Post #2
	Now available to pre-order in the US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/159...ommanderbond-20 ~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other ♦ D of the CBn Four *♦ ♦ ♦ Are You Ready To Go? ♦ ♦ ♦*

Qwerty View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 002175 \| Posts: 79973 Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York	28 November 2007 - 00:21 Post #3
	And now discounted 35%... ~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other ♦ D of the CBn Four *♦ ♦ ♦ Are You Ready To Go? ♦ ♦ ♦*

Qwerty View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 002175 \| Posts: 79973 Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York	26 January 2008 - 00:23 Post #4
	Cover artwork... 'For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond' Cover Artwork New book to accompany Fleming Centenary exhibition in April '08 ~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other ♦ D of the CBn Four *♦ ♦ ♦ Are You Ready To Go? ♦ ♦ ♦*

Qwerty View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 002175 \| Posts: 79973 Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York	2 April 2008 - 19:05 Post #5
	Now shipping in the UK... 'For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond' Now Shipping Order online at amazon.co.uk ~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other ♦ D of the CBn Four *♦ ♦ ♦ Are You Ready To Go? ♦ ♦ ♦*

Qwerty View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 002175 \| Posts: 79973 Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York	8 April 2008 - 18:09 Post #6
	James Bond's gadgets, guns, gizmos and cars At the dawn of a new consumer age, Ian Fleming gave Bond his own love of techno-trickery and marvellous machines Ian Fleming understood the attraction of �things�. Not just material things (though he and James Bond certainly appreciated those) but things that did things, for the 1950s and early 1960s was the great age of the gadget: ever more sophisticated cars, domestic appliances, trains, planes, spacesaving devices; machines to make life easier, faster or, in the case of weapons, shorter. This was an age when food mixers, Teasmades, televisions and fridges were arriving in British homes in increasing numbers. When describing technology or modes of transport in his books, Fleming worked hard to get the details right, and when he got them wrong (as he not infrequently did) he was grateful to readers for pointing out his mistakes. �I take very great pains over the technical and geographical background to James Bond's adventures,� he wrote. Whenever possible, he consulted experts. Minute technical descriptions have since become a stock-in-trade of the thriller writer, but Fleming was among the first to realise that readers (particularly male readers) have an almost insatiable desire to be told the precise make, size, shape and structure of every machine, even if the details are forgotten the instant they are read. Secret service gadgetry - masterminded by the irascible Q - plays a crucial role in the James Bond films, reaching an almost ludicrous level of inventiveness. But gizmos are also present in the books, courtesy of Q-Branch, the genuine wartime equipment unit under the extraordinary inventor Charles Fraser-Smith. Based in a tiny office near St James's Park, Fraser-Smith dreamt up an array of ingenious gadgets: a hairbrush containing a map and a saw; magnetised matches that doubled as makeshift compasses; a pipe lined with asbestos that could be smoked without destroying the documents hidden inside (though it might well destroy the smoker); a shoelace that could also be used as a handy steel garrotte. Read more... http://commanderbond.net/components/quickn...&item=46229 - The Times ~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other ♦ D of the CBn Four *♦ ♦ ♦ Are You Ready To Go? ♦ ♦ ♦*

Qwerty View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 002175 \| Posts: 79973 Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York	30 April 2008 - 00:43 Post #7
	Now available in the US... 'For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond' Released In US Order online at Amazon.com ~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other ♦ D of the CBn Four *♦ ♦ ♦ Are You Ready To Go? ♦ ♦ ♦*

Dell Deaton View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 008383 \| Posts: 675 Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 22 November 2006 From: Michigan	30 April 2008 - 03:29 Post #8
	My copy is en route to me as I write--. Watches. James Bond Watches.

Qwerty View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 002175 \| Posts: 79973 Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York	30 April 2008 - 17:27 Post #9
	I'll have to check some nearby bookstores for deals today or tomorrow. If not, then amazon it is... ~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other ♦ D of the CBn Four *♦ ♦ ♦ Are You Ready To Go? ♦ ♦ ♦*

MarcAngeDraco View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 003161 \| Posts: 3151 Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 9 November 2004 From: Oxford, Michigan	1 May 2008 - 10:29 Post #10
	Got mine yesterday (delivered from Amazon), but haven't even had a chance to do more than a quick flip through it yet... But today is the thirteenth...

David Schofield View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 003199 \| Posts: 1949 Lt. Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 23 November 2004	1 May 2008 - 10:35 Post #11
	QUOTE(MarcAngeDraco @ 1 May 2008 - 11:29) Got mine yesterday (delivered from Amazon), but haven't even had a chance to do more than a quick flip through it yet... You won't be diappointed! The author has some interesting observations to make on perceptions of Bond and a very pleasant style of writing.

Single-O-Seven View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 009920 \| Posts: 576 Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 7 January 2007 From: Toronto, ON, Canada	2 May 2008 - 12:06 \| Post #12
	For those of us unable to visit the exhibition, BBC Breakfast featured a tour of the exhibit led by the book's author, as well as an interview with Fleming's niece, Lucy Fleming: http://youtube.com/watch?v=nGAMQjHX63o