William Henry Stevenson (1 June 192426 November 2013) was a British-born Canadian author and journalist.
His 1976 book ''A Man Called Intrepid'' was about
William Stephenson
Sir William Samuel Stephenson (23 January 1897 – 31 January 1989), born William Samuel Clouston Stanger, was a Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster who served as the senior representative of the British Security Coord ...
(no relation) and was a best-seller. It was made into a 1979 mini-series starring
David Niven
James David Graham Niven (; 1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was a British actor, soldier, memoirist, and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Major Pollock in '' Separate Tables'' (1958). Niven's other roles ...
. Stevenson followed it in 1983 with another book, ''Intrepid's Last Case''. He published his autobiography in 2012.
In 1976 Stevenson released the book, ''
90 Minutes at Entebbe
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It was about
Operation Entebbe
Operation Entebbe, also known as the Entebbe Raid or Operation Thunderbolt, was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976.
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, an operation where
Israel
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i commandos landed at night at
Entebbe Airport
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in
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The ...
and succeeded in rescuing the passengers of an airliner hi-jacked by
Palestinian
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militants, while incurring very few casualties. Stevenson's "instant book" was written, edited, printed and available for sale within weeks of the event it described.
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Bibliography
* ''The Yellow Wind'', 1959, Houghton Mifflin Co., , . Reportage on the People's Republic of China between 1954-1957.
* ''
The Bushbabies
''The Bushbabies'' is a children's novel by Canadian author William Stevenson published in 1965. The book was inspired by Stevenson's own life in Kenya, where his daughter Jackie, to whom the book is dedicated, kept a bushbaby named Kamau as ...
'', 1965, Houghton Mifflin Co., , . Children's story inspired by his own family's adventures in Africa.
* ''The Bormann Brotherhood'', 1973 (non-fiction)
* ''A Man Called Intrepid'', 1976, Harcourt, . (non-fiction)
* ''The Ghosts of Africa'', 1980, Harcourt, . Historical fiction set in World War I colonial German East Africa.
* ''Intrepid's Last Case'', 1983, Michael Joseph Ltd, . (non-fiction)
* ''Eclipse'', 1986 (fiction)
* ''Booby Trap'', 1987 (fiction)
* ''Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam'', 1990, Dutton, . Co-written with his wife Monika Jensen-Stevenson. (non-fiction)
* ''90 Minutes at Entebbe'', Bantam, (non-fiction)
* ''Strike Zion'' 1967 (non-fiction)
* ''Zanek!; A Chronicle of the Israeli Force'' (non-fiction)
* ''The Revolutionary King: : the true-life sequel to the King and I'', 2001, Constable and Robinson, .
* ''Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II'', 2006, Arcade Publishing, . (biography)
* ''Past to Present: A Reporter's Story of War, Spies, People, and Politics'', Lyons Press, 2012.
References
External links
* Publisher's biographical notes in ''Intrepid's Last Case''.
''Kiss the Truth Goodbye''review at miafacts.com (only in respect of Stevenson's wife, and the existence of that book)
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Canadian non-fiction writers
1924 births
2013 deaths
British emigrants to Canada