In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'.
Nicholas Rankin spent twenty years broadcasting for BBC World Service where he was Chief Producer and won two UN awards. He is the author of
Dead Man's Chest,
Telegram from Guernica and the bestselling
Churchill's Wizards, the story of British intelligence in the two World Wars.