| Description |
viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
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 -- Nehru, 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. |
| Subject |
Stevenson, William, 1924-2013.
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Authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Journalists -- Canada -- Biography.
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Air pilots -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.
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| ISBN |
9780762773701 |
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0762773707 |
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