The Bond Exhibit within the Imperial War Museum was fascinating. The exhibit was filled with interesting memorabilia from the life of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, and memorabilia from James Bond himself. James Bond is one of the world’s most celebrated spies and the novels in which he is the star lead the World War Two spy fiction genre in new directions. These novels by Fleming and later the movies brought to life for many people the way they envisioned the life of a spy and added glamour and style to it. The spy genre was vastly popular during the time right after World War Two and during the Cold War but it is still popular now as is evident by the production of a new James Bond movie this year.
The exhibit showed the development of Ian Fleming as a person and this development explained a lot about the type of man Bond is. Bond was a more adventurist version of Fleming; they were both loved women and golf and were involved in the government but Bond is the action while Fleming was the paper pusher. It was nice to learn about the objects that spies would have used, like lighters that were cameras, shoes that contained poison pointed blades and quite a few different guns. These objects may have been common for spies but they were not for the people that were reading about them. The spy novel was well received in Britain and America because they created an alternate world with mystery and excitement where good always won to an era that was highly charged and politically unstable; The Cold War.
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