From Russia, with Love is the fifth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story in early 1956 at his Goldeneye est
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The Orient Express, on which Bond travelled from Istanbul to Paris
The Enigma machine was used as the basis for the fictional Soviet Spektor decoding machine
Diamonds Are Forever (novel)
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Diamonds Are Forever is the fourth novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica,
From Russia, with Love (novel)
…By January 1956 the author Ian Fleming had published three novels—Casino Royale in 1953, Live and Let Die in 1954 and Moonraker in 1955. A fourth, Diamonds Are Forever, was being edited and prepared for production. That month Fleming travelled to his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica to write From Russia, with Love. He…
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The main track of Saratoga Race Course (in 1907)
Sierra Leonean miners panning for diamonds
RMS Queen Elizabeth approaching New York; Fleming travelled to the US on board, Bond took the ship back to Britain.