Past to present: a reporter's story of war, spies, people, and politics
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Guilford, Conn.
Lyons Press
2012
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| Abstract: | William Stevenson may be best known for his friendship with and books about another William Stephenson, otherwise known as Intrepid, whose spy network and secret diplomacy changed the course of history. Originally published in 1976, A Man Called Intrepid sold over 2 million copies and quickly became a New York Timesbestseller. However, readers will be just as fascinated by his life's story and adventures. Stevenson chronicles the major events of his life, beginning with his daring and dangerous time as a naval pilot during WWII flying a multitude of legendary aircraft-Stringbag, Tiger Moth, Seafire, Hellcats-and learning various maneuvers in the skies enroute to Russia, over England, Canada, Scotland, and the Pacific. After the war, still yearning for adventure, he returns to Canada to write for The Toronto Daily Star, where he again meets William Stephenson (aka Intrepid) on assignment and develops a lifelong friendship. Stevenson travels the globe, visiting Hong Kong, Delhi, Kashmir, Kenya, Kuala Lumpur, Moscow, Thailand, and many other exotic locals, where he meets iconic figures, such as Ian Fleming, Prime Minister Nehru, Ho Chi Minh, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Tse-tung, Zhou Enlai, Tito, Khrushchev, and the King of Thailand among others. Privy to confidential information, full of international intrigue, Stevenson is a living embodiment of modern history. Past to Present, with story after amazing story to tell, will leave the reader breathless. |
| Umfang: | viii, 264 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780762773701 |
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| adam_text | Contents A Note from the Author................................................................... vii Chapter i : Not Posh............................................................................ 1 Chapter 2: Back to the Lowest Form of Marine Life...................6 Chapter 3: Foul Storms Ahead........................................................... 9 Chapter 4: Slipping the Surly Bonds of Earth...............................18 Chapter 5: Spill This Secret and You Kill Your Dad....................22 Chapter 6: Finding Answers............................................................ 30 Chapter 7: Going Solo...................................................................... 34 Chapter 8: A Ghost Who Haunts a Lifetime.............................. 41 Chapter 9: Here Today and Gone Tomorrow.............................. 46 Chapter 10: Captains at the Gate.................................................. 53 Chapter i i: Survivors in Notional Proximity.............................. 62 Chapter 12: The Final Cut................................................................67 Chapter 13: Facts Are Sacred......................................................... 75 Chapter 14: For Services Unofficially Rendered...........................78 Chapter 15: Nehru,Tito, and the Pigeonhole Express.................87 Chapter 16: Truth and Consequences in Korea........................... 94 Chapter i 7: From a Coronation to Auschwitz and a Lost Pilot........................................................................................98 Chapter 18: An Absentminded Fool Puts a
Foot Wrong in Mongolia...........................................................106 Chapter 19: Meeting Mao and the Dalai Lama.........................114 Chapter 20: Making Enemies by Dropping Allies......................120 Chapter 21 : Enter the Dragon Lady............................................. 126 Chapter 22: Who Is Ho?................................................................. 132 Chapter 23: Odd Friends and Confessions................................... 140 Chapter 24: Double-think and Double Lives............................ 147 Chapter 25: An Underwater Escape to Boyhood Dreams . . .153 Chapter 26: Goebbels’s Old Puppet Finds a New Trumpet . .158
Contents Chapter 27:1 Find a New Life in a New World of My Own............................................................. 160 Chapter 28: The Emperor Loses His Clothes........................... 164 Chapter 29: Sputnik and the Death of a Great Indian Aviator................................................................ 167 Chapter 30: Return of the Trotsky Case..................................... 171 Chapter 31: Moscow’s Spyglass on Chinas Atom Bombs . . . 174 Chapter 32: Afghans Erase All Who Get in the Way............. 178 Chapter 3 3 : A Boyhood Dream Dies.........................................181 Chapter 34: Tender Traps.............................................................. 184 Chapter 35: End of an Ace and an Honest Man........................192 Chapter 36: The Mole Who Gagged Soviet Defectors..............195 Chapter 37: The Burma Road Leads to China’s Future .... 198 Chapter 38: A Splendid Secret Love............................................ 206 Chapter 39: Dalai Lama Is No More “On Top”........................210 Chapter 40: The King and I Share Dragons.............................. 212 Chapter 41: A Difference between Elephants............................223 Chapter 42: Adventures of the Imagination............................... 227 Chapter 43: The BBC and “The Nazi King.”............................... 230 Chapter 44: A Piece of Cake.......................................................... 234 Chapter 45 : Two Small Countries Surrounded by Big Enemies.............................................................................. 239 Chapter 46:
“A Little Person” Goes to School at the Palace . .245 Chapter 47: Merry-Go-Round.......................................................250 Epilogue: Full Circle...........................................................................252 Index......................................................................................................254 vi
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