Discuss @David Flin 's latest article here.
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Discuss @David Flin 's latest article here.
Forgotten the link there, Andy. It's another excellent article anyway. I've been taken by that lebanon story and the picture it paints since David first used it in his troubles story.
I guess there's a moral conflict in choosing who gets out and who doesn't, because this was a case where demand exceeded (by a considerable margin) the capacity to meet that demand.
I rather suspect that's likely to be on the Man from UNCLE side of the reality/myth balance.
It's precisely the sort of thing that would usually be missed, but is also absolutely crying out for a film adaptation because its got all the right elements (danger, possibility of romance, moral conflict etc.)
Though in terms of Bond and super spies and the like. Wasn't that influenced by the SOE and OSS and early CIA who really bought into blowing shit up, killing people and working with resistance groups and sexy stuff like that (and consequently kept fucking up completely when against the Soviets and regimes who weren't as widely hated and spread thinly as the Nazis) in the time period Fleming was writing in?