1 - Dead Poets Society
Ian Fleming was born May 29, 1908 in the district of Mayfair in London. His grandfather, Robert Fleming of Scotland, made his fortune in America and is considered the father financial investment companies. Ian's father, Valentine, is one of those Edwardian characters of noble lineage, being raised in a refined setting. He attended the first Eton, then Oxford, where he graduated in law. He then became MP for South Oxfordshire and 18 February 1906, at age 24, wife Evelyn St. Croix Rose, a provincial shy and reserved. From an early age Ian was a child strong, vibrant and melancholy, and his temperament is just unconventional and less inclined to study. Mandate with his brother Peter (larger than a year) on Duruford School, hates Ian immediately authoritarian environment and strict discipline.
The loss of his father, in May 1917 during the First World War, is bound to influence the youth of the young, the parent who sees a legendary figure, who with his courage deserved an obituary in The Times of Winston Churchill. The rich
Valentine leaves all his property to his wife that they therefore have to look after children alone. Both
Peter Ian enrolling at Eton but, unlike Peter who now excels in the study, Ian differs only in sports, making Victor Ludorum in athletics. Because of his behavior with the girls he is forced to leave college with a quarter in advance to pursue a military career at Sandhurst. However, even that experience does not last long. After one semester, in fact, the guy resigns from the military college.
Desperate, the mother sends a seventeen year old Ian Kitzbuel at Dennis Forbis family. The couple have a significant influence on the young, making him by tutors and by starting the diplomatic service. This is where Ian discovered his love of books for women and the mountain. Ian
also during his tenure improves his French, German and start speaking Russian. The competition in diplomacy turns out to be another failure. Four years after Fleming was forced to return to live with his mother. The latter, concerned about the misadventures of his son, makes sure that find profitable employment as soon as possible. She is to get his son a job with the Reuter news agency. After a trial period of six months, during which he was happy, comes the first big break. A Fleming, in fact, be given an opportunity to go to Moscow to follow the trial of six British Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, who were accused in March of 1933 by the Soviet police (the dreaded Glepeù) of espionage and sabotage. The process has now gone down in history alongside the great Stalinist purges of the '30s. The stay in Moscow is crucial for the neo reporter, who has the opportunity to observe closely the methods of Glepeù. This is destined to become valuable experience many years later during the writing of From Russia with Love. During the process, culminating in the conviction of five employees (later expelled from the USSR), Fleming demonstrates creativity and initiative to the satisfaction of Reuter.
The agency would continue working but Fleming surrender to the role of correspondent in Shanghai to take the profession of stockbroker.
After having worked for some years in the City Fleming is called to a new job, much more lively.
One morning in May of 1939, the thirty year old is invited to lunch by Rear Admiral John Godfrey, recently appointed Director of Information Service of the Navy (NID). On the eve of the conflict, Godfrey is responsible for calling into action the spy organization and needs an assistant. Ian enthusiastically accepts the offer, because he seems perfect opportunity to feed his dreams of adventure. For almost six years working in the legendary room number 38 of the Admiralty, the scene of all major decisions of World War II. Here's how to stand out thanks to his dedication, his imagination and his courage. Experience is essential to a gym, from which Fleming will draw from the handful in his novels. During the conflict is actively involved to various diplomatic missions, travels to Tangier, Lisbon, is committed in France during the capitulation of the French Government, goes to America and saw the birth of the American secret services. It is also distinguished by his bizarre ideas, such as to bring the magician Alistair Crowley in the role of mediator with Rudolph Hess, or study the life dell'Oberturbandführer Otto Skorzeny, head of German espionage. Imitating his antagonist, he creates the assault units 30, one of the most extra-ordinarily self-British Army, whose task is to retrieve documents of the wartime enemy.
In the fall of 1944, after having gone to Washington for a working liaison with the secret service of the U.S. Navy, Fleming went to Kingston, Jamaica, to represent the NID to a conference on the threat of German submarines in the Caribbean Sea. To get the part with his friend Ivar Bryce for a long train ride on the Silver Meteor. It is a journey so fascinating that he later will use it in Live and Let Die. Fleming now loves Jamaica and, with one of his impulsive decisions, decides to elect a future summer residence. He therefore asks his friend Bryce to find him six acres of land to buy them and those located in Oracabessa. When he sees the pictures of the land, with its hidden beaches and the jungle behind, Fleming does not hesitate a moment and bought the lot, personally designing the house he called Goldeneye. The name suggests it to him the novel by Carson McCullers' Reflections in a Golden Eye (in English Reflections in a Golden Eye). On 10 November 1945 Fleming takes his leave from the army. A 37-year-old man who must reinvent their lives. After having toyed with the idea of \u200b\u200bgoing into secret service MI6, accepts the offer of Lord Kemsley to organize a foreign news service to its chain of newspapers, among which is also the Sunday Times. The reward of 5000 pounds a year is good, Fleming also gets two months off the year in which he took refuge in Goldeneye, next friend Noel Coward, dedicated to swimming, diving and hunting for sharks. However after a few years that work becomes a prison for him and his restless mind wakes up, unable to withstand the everyday office squabbles. In 1949, he understands that the hopes placed in a high-level career in journalism are gone. Once again the disappointment of the crisis raises profound melancholy, which dilutes the 70 cigarettes daily and a quart of gin. Health begins to falter. Fleming acknowledge a feeling of tightness in the chest that doctors underestimate the beginning.
During these years cultivating important friendships in the field of publishing. First, the poet and novelist William Plomer, His colleague at the NID during the war, literary consultant and publisher Jonathan Cape. Another important relationship is with the poet Dame Edith Sitwell, with whom he shares a passion for Paracelsus. And then the playwright Noel Coward, his neighbor in Jamaica.
On 24 March 1952, at age 43, he married Lady Rothermere Fleming, formerly Lady O'Neill, born Anne Charteris. The woman, intelligent, strong and determined, does break the heart of inveterate macho after a six-year relationship.
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