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    Past to present : a reporter's story of war, spies, people, and politics / William Stevenson.
    by Stevenson, William, 1925-
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    Lyons Press, 2012.
    Call #:921 S8482p
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  • Stevenson, William, 1925-
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  • Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Biography
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  • Authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography
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  • Journalists -- Canada -- Biography
    •  
  • Air pilots -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British
    • ISBN: 
    9780762773701 (hc.)
    0762773707 (hc.)
    Description: 
    264 p. ; 24 cm.
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    Includes index.
    Contents: 
    Not posh -- Back to the lowest form of Marine life -- Foul storms ahead -- Slipping the surly bonds of earth -- Spill this secret and you kill your dad -- Finding answers -- Going solo -- A ghost who haunts a lifetime -- Here today and gone tomorrow -- Captains at the gate -- Survivors in notional proximity -- The final cut -- Facts are sacred -- For services unofficially rendered -- Nehr, Tito, and the pigeonhole express -- Truth and consequences in Korea -- From a coronation to Auschwitz and a lost pilot -- An absentminded fool puts a foot wrong in Mongolia -- Meeting Mao and the Dalai Lama -- Making enemies by dropping allies -- Enter the dragon lady -- Who is Ho? -- Odd friends and confessions -- Double-think and double lives -- An underwater escape to boyhood dreams -- Goebbles's old puppet finds a new trumpet -- I find a new life in a new world of my own -- The emperor loses his clothes -- Sputnik and the death of a great Indian aviator -- Return of the trotsky case -- Moscow's spyglass on china's atom bombs -- Afghans Erase All Who get in the way -- A boyhood dream dies -- Tender traps -- End of an ace and an honest man -- The mole who gagged Soviet defectors -- The Burma Road leads to China's future -- A splendid secret love -- Dalai Lama is no more on top? -- The king and I share dragons -- A difference between elephants -- Adventures of the imagination -- The BBC and "the Nazi king" -- A piece of cake -- Two small countries surrounded by big enemies -- "A little person" goes to school at the palace -- Merry-go-round -- Epilogue: full circle.
    Summary: 
    "William 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."--Provided by publisher.
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