Capstone paper help: Fleming and the OSS

walther p99

Im doing my college capstone paper on the OSS (Americas WWII intelligence service) in pop culture, and since Fleming had a role in creating the OSS (even receiving a revolver from Bill Donovan that read "For special services", later to become the name of a Bond novel) and was wondering what i could elaborate on that involves Bond in relation to the OSS.

The Domino Effect

Fleming's relations with the OSS and Donovan are described in both Andrew Lycett's "Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond" and John Pearson's "The Life of Ian Fleming." Although I haven't read it yet, I suspect that Nicholas Rankin also touches on it in his new book "Ian Fleming's Commandos." Those books are the sole source of the information that I have learned on the topic. It would be interesting to see the story from the other side, ie biographies of Donovan or histories of the OSS but I haven't made that effort. Good luck with your paper, however.

thesecretagent

Great subject to work on! Beats the hell out of my dissertation on The Victorian Train Development, and the Start of the Workingman's Holiday...

Donald Grant

You might also want to try this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Bill-Donovan-Spymaster-Espionage/dp/1416567445

I read it last year and it touched on how Fleming liaised with OSS and how he help to get it going. Great book and Donovan was awarded the Medal of Honor for his exploits in the "Fighting 69th" in WWI.

DG