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Name
  
William Craig

Role
  
Author

Education
  
Columbia University


Died
  
September 22, 1997, Norwalk, Connecticut, United States

Books
  
Enemy at the Gates: The Battl, The Fall of Japan, The Strasbourg Legacy, Yankee Come Home: O, The Tashkent Crisis

William Craig (1929–1997) was an American author.

Contents

Writing career

His first book, The Fall of Japan (1968), is a documentary account of the last weeks of the Second World War in the Pacific.

Craig's first novel, The Tashkent Crisis (1971), is a Cold War Era thriller about espionage and international politics. His second World War II book, Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, was published in 1973. Incidents from the history were used to structure the movie Enemy at the Gates (2001). Craig's final book was a spy thriller, The Strasbourg Legacy (1975).

Personal life

He married Eleanor Russell, who — as Eleanor Craig — was the bestselling author of four books, including P.S. You're Not Listening (1972). They had four children.

Their second son, William Craig, is the author of Yankee Come Home: On the Road from San Juan Hill to Guantanamo (2012).

References

William Craig (author) Wikipedia