Historians agree: Ian Fleming based James Bond on former British Consul in Mallorca and World War 2 super-spy

In the book Roosevelt & Churchill: Men of Secrets, the historian David Stafford gives an account of Hillgarth's links with Winston Churchill in prewar Majorca, where Hillgarth was the British consul. By the outbreak of World War II, Hillgarth was Nav... [2029 chars]

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