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Who Do They Think They Are?

When extraordinary writers prove fallible

Patrick Warner

To Save a Planet

Between despair and disaster

Julie McGonegal

Campfire Confessional

Crushes, counsellors, and s’more

Michael Strizic
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William Stevenson

William Stevenson was a Royal Navy fighter pilot in World War Two and later worked for Sir William Stephenson and wrote a book about him (A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret War, originally published in 1976 and reissued by Lyons Press in 2009 with a foreword by Ronald Reagan). He has been a foreign correspondent in Russia, China, India and other parts of Asia and Africa, as well as the author of 16 books. He is currently working on his memoirs.

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A Body in Uniform

Derring-do doesn’t get much more daring than this World War Two tale September 2010
On the dusty shelves of World War Two movies, there is a 1956 Clifton Webb spy thriller called The Man Who Never Was, which tells a sanitized version of an extraordinary 1943 plot known as Operation Mincemeat, wherein British intelligence was able to pass misleading information to Hitler’s generals that led them down the garden path to an Allied victory in Sicily and to Germany’s ultimate…