William Stevenson 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 and Stevenson followed it up with a 1983 book titled “Intrepid’s Last Case.”
Stevenson set a record with another 1976 book, “90 Minutes at Entebbe.” The book was about Operation Entebbe, an operation where Israeli commandos secretly landed at night at Entebbe Airport in Uganda and succeeded in rescuing the passengers of an airliner hi-jacked by Palestinian militants, while incurring very few casualties. The remarkable record in that pre-internet age is that Stevenson’s “instant book” was written, edited, printed and available for sale within weeks of the event it described.
Books in order of publication:
| Birds’ Nests in their Beards | 1963 |
| The Bushbaby | 1965 |
| Strike Zion! | 1967 |
| JACOBITE RISING OF 1745 | 1968 |
| Zanek! A Chronicle of the Israeli Air Force | 1971 |
| The Bormann Brotherhood | 1973 |
| A Man Called Intrepid | 1976 |
| 90 Minutes at Entebbe | 1976 |
| The Ghosts of Africa | 1980 |
| Eclipse | 1986 |
| Booby Trap | 1987 |
| The Revolutionary King | 1999 |
| Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II | 2006 |
| A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels – Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest … the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson | 2009 |
| Past to Present: A Reporter’s Story of War, Spies, People and Politics | 2012 |
| The Autobiography of the Rev. William Stevenson | 2015 |
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