Past to present
Subtitle: a reporter's story of war, spies, people, and politics
By: William Stevenson
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780762773701
Subjects: Great Britain; Journalists; World War, 1939-1945; British Personal narratives; Air pilots; Canadian Authors; Biography
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Not posh; title: Back to the lowest form of Marine life; title: Foul storms ahead; title: Slipping the surly bonds of earth; title: Spill this secret and you kill your dad; title: Finding answers; title: Going solo; title: A ghost who haunts a lifetime; title: Here today and gone tomorrow; title: Captains at the gate; title: Survivors in notional proximity; title: The final cut; title: Facts are sacred; title: For services unofficially rendered; title: Nehr, Tito, and the pigeonhole express; title: Truth and consequences in Korea; title: From a coronation to Auschwitz and a lost pilot; title: An absentminded fool puts a foot wrong in Mongolia; title: Meeting Mao and the Dalai Lama; title: Making enemies by dropping allies; title: Enter the dragon lady; title: Who is Ho?; title: Odd friends and confessions; title: Double-think and double lives; title: An underwater escape to boyhood dreams; title: Goebbles's old puppet finds a new trumpet; title: I find a new life in a new world of my own; title: The emperor loses his clothes; title: Sputnik and the death of a great Indian aviator; title: Return of the trotsky case; title: Moscow's spyglass on china's atom bombs; title: Afghans EraseWho get in the way; title: A boyhood dream dies; title: Tender traps; title: End of an ace and an honest man; title: The mole who gagged Soviet defectors; title: The Burma Road leads to China's future; title: A splendid secret love; title: Dalai Lama is no more on top?; title: The king and I share dragons; title: A difference between elephants; title: Adventures of the imagination; title: The BBC and "the Nazi king"; title: A piece of cake; title: Two small countries surrounded by big enemies; title: "A little person" goes to school at the palace; title: Merry-go-round; title: Epilogue: full circle.