So much of the review is projecting today's values into the past that it is hard to tell how much is a fair assessment and how much is virtue signaling.
> Inspired by a detective novel, Basil Thomson’s The Milliner’s Hat Mystery, Fleming is credited with proposing Operation Mincemeat, in which Naval Intelligence attached an identikit of fake documents to a dead body and released it from a submarine into Spanish waters; the Spanish, as expected, passed on the false information to the Germans, causing them to leave Sicily unprotected against Allied invasion.
I did not know this really important operation[1] was Ian Fleming's brainchild. Just this one is enough success.
i guess it is an attempt to generate clicks by fabricating a controversy?
it would be one thing if it were a serious attempt to critique the values espoused by bond/fleming, but it is just a bland flattening of the truth with some uninspired spitting on it.
In fact, being unremarkable is the hallmark of excellence in intelligence ops, therefore, I assume Mr Fleming was very good at his day job.
Some of the short stories also seem realistic, as does The Spy Who Loved Me.
The later books seem more fanciful.
His career was during a war when large numbers of people were doing rather heroic things.
He beats Hemingway, whose major achievement of WWII was liberating the bar of the Ritz in Paris.