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Operations. World War I. World War II. Sir William Samuel Stephenson CC MC DFC (born William Samuel Clouston Stanger, 23 January 1897 – 31 January 1989) was a Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster who served as the senior representative of the British Security Coordination (BSC) for the western allies during ...
Biografia. È diventato famoso per il suo romanzo " A Man Called Intrepid " che ha come protagonista Sir William Samuel Stephenson [1] (verso il quale l'autore non ha alcun grado di parentela), diventato un best seller da cui è stata tratta nel 1979 una miniserie televisiva con David Niven, seguito poi dal romanzo " Intrepid's Last Case " del 1983.
Pilot, prisoner, inventor, spy — Sir William Stephenson lived a courageous life full of adventure and derring-do. (Many people consider him one of the real-life inspirations for James Bond.) Here are a few tales of one of WWII’s most infamous intelligence officers, the man code-named “Intrepid.”
1 dic 2013 · William Stevenson, a journalist and author who drew on his close ties with intelligence sources to write two best-selling books in the 1970s, “A Man Called Intrepid” and “90 Minutes at...
23 gen 2008 · Stephenson, Sir William Samuel. Sir William Samuel Stephenson, inventor, businessman, master spy (b at Winnipeg, Man 11 Jan 1897; d in Bermuda 31 Jan 1989). Stephenson flew as a fighter pilot in WWI, winning several medals for bravery.
William Henry Stevenson (1 June 1924 – 26 November 2013) was a British-born Canadian author and journalist. His 1976 book A Man Called Intrepid was about William Stephenson (no relation) and was a best-seller. It was made into a 1979 mini-series starring David Niven. Stevenson followed it in 1983 with another book, Intrepid's Last ...
9 apr 2024 · William Stephenson was a Canadian-born millionaire industrialist whose role as Britain’s intelligence chief in the Western Hemisphere in World War II was chronicled in A Man Called Intrepid (1979). The son of a lumber-mill owner, Stephenson dropped out of college to serve in the Royal Canadian.
