Fallout Talks 3 with Dr Martin D B Brown pt 1
The Bondian Cold War and other matters
Philip’s guest is Dr Martin D.B. Brown of Richmond American University, London.
Dr Brown holds a Ph.D. in International History from the University of Surrey, and a M. A. in central and eastern European studies from the School Of Slavonic and East European Studies (S.S.E.E.S.) at the University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (F.R.Hist.S.), a member of the New Diplomatic History Network and Chatham House.
From September 2018 Dr Brown will be taking up a fixed-term research position at the Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies at the University of Tallinn in Estonia. He travelled to Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand , in the summer of 2012 to take up a position as the second Novara visiting scholar.
Twitter @mdrbrown 'It's a mess, ain't it, sheriff? If it ain't it'll do till a mess gets here.'
Bluesky @martindbbrown.bsky.social.
The Bondian Cold War - @BondianCW.
Main points include:
- Genesis of the book The Bondian Cold War.
- Bond, Fleming and the Cold War - fiction and product like Sherlock Holmes
- Bond books and films don’t track events - main consideration was selling the franchise
- Jaan Kaplinski, an important Estonian poet is mentioned.
- The dying days of Twitter.
- Murder Without Hatred - Anton Weiss-Wendt, Estonians and the Holocaust.
Link to professor Brown’s book (the ebook is reasonably priced).
On a tangent - A friend of Dustin’s, Jan Hołoubek, just made a new film about a Polish anti-Bond. The hero even goes to the cinema to watch a Bond film…
Dustin mixed up Gierek (Polish communist who was a miner in pre-War France) and Gomułka (Polish communist, almost killed by Stalin).
Dustin also immediately fell sick with Covid after recording so he may be behaving strangely on screen.
We interrupted the talk at one hour, next parts upcoming.
PS A talk on Bluesky on the Nazi Bond, Skorzeny. Also a psychopath.
Update on day of publication - error in name
Fallout is at Fallout at @philipblood.bsky.social, @dustinducane.bsky.social and the other platform @HistorianBlood (Dustin’s Space Nazi Site account is mostly inactive).