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==World War Two. The Royal Navy and Ian Fleming==
In 1939 Robert Harling met [[Ian Fleming]], the meeting was (as Harling found later) no accident. Fleming, was serving in [[Naval Intelligence Division (United Kingdom)|Naval Intelligence]], and had heard about Harling's editorship of the Typography journal, which was setting new standards for the design and display of printed matter. During their meeting he learned that Harling was also writer and designer of "News-Reel Maps" for the [[News Chronicle]], and "demi-semi-resident art director" of [[Thomas Cholmondeley, 4th Baron Delamere|Lord Delamere]]'s up-and-coming advertising agency. This led him to commission Harling to redesign the Admiralty's weekly intelligence report, but they were not to meet again until 1941.
Harling, a keen amateur sailor, volunteered for the [[Royal Navy]]. Before he finished training, under the legendary Captain [[O. M. Watts]], he found himself at [[Dunkirk evacuation|Dunkirk]] in charge of a [[whaler]]. Sub-Lieutenant Harling, RNVR, next found himself [[navigator]] of a [[corvette]], on convoy duty in the [[Western Approaches]]. This led him to write ''The Steep Atlantick Stream'', published by [[Chatto & Windus]] in 1946, based on his experiences in the [[Battle of the Atlantic|North Atlantic]] and [[Battle of the Mediterranean|Mediterranean]] between 1941 and 1942.
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