Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent,

Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

All right.

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

And don't get us started on Mel.

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat.

Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us.

P and O'Ferees, there is another way.

Hello everyone, this is the History Hit Warfare Podcast. I'm your host James

Rogers and I'm delighted to say we have my old friend Professor Klaus

Dodds on this episode. He's joined us to talk about James Bond.

Klaus himself is an international man of history.

He's an expert academic and policy advisor in geopolitics and international security, but he is also an academic

expert on the history of an international man of mystery that is James Bond.

Klaus has co-authored the fantastic Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond with Lisa Funnell,

and he takes us through this amazing history of how James Bond author, Ian Fleming, constructed Bond out of his own experiences as a commander during the Second World War.

This episode has everything from Operation Goldenie to Fleming's personal relationship with JFK and we even discuss who James Bond might really be based on.

Enjoy. Hi Klaus, great to have you on the podcast. How you doing today?

Good thanks. It's nice to be with you. I'm sort of currently looking out the window in my small office, my home, and there's some snow falling gently to the ground which certainly appeals to me given my other

interests in colder parts of the world. Yeah are you all snowed in or is it a nice kind of serene landscape as opposed to a difficult one?

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