The Man Who Saved Britain (Paperback)
Simon Winder (author)- In stock online
After victory in World War II, Britain was a relieved but also a profoundly traumatized country. Simon Winder, born into this nation of uncertain identity, fell in love (as many before and since) with the man created as the antidote, a quintessentially British figure of great cultural significance: James Bond. Written with passion, wit and a great deal of personal insight and affection, this book is his wildly amusing attempt to get to grips with Bond's legacy and the difficult decades in which it really mattered.
`A more entertaining tour of 007, and the period associations that get sucked into Winder's great comic intelligence, is hard to imagine' London Review of Books
`Diversions for the general reader and delights for the Bond enthusiast' Sunday Times
`A delightfully quirky, immediately engaging book' Scotland on Sunday
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330544450
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 248 g
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 21 mm
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