The Man Who Saved Britain

Simon Winder

earliest edition we have, 2006 Picador, 2006

"To grow up in England in the 1970s was to grow up with James Bond, and The Man Who Saved Britain is, first of all, the story of the author's relationship with this "national religion." Simon Winder lovingly and ruefully re-creates the nadirs and humiliations of fandom while illuminating what Bond's evolution - from books to film, from his roots in the 1940s to his "managed decline" today - says about the conservativ...

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Man Who Saved Britain paperback · 2011 · Picador USA · 304 pages · 9780330544450
Man Who Saved Britain edition · 2007 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9781429923712
The Man Who Saved Britain paperback · 2007 · Picador · 312 pages · 9780312426668
Man Who Saved Britain edition · 2006 · Picador · 9780330450294
The Man Who Saved Britain edition · 2006 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 312 pages · 9780374299385

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