William Craig (1929 â September 22, 1997) was an American historian and author of fiction and non-fiction.
His first book, The Fall of Japan (1968), is a non-fiction 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 book on the Second World War, ', was published in 1973. Incidents from history were used to structure the movie Enemy at the Gates (2001). Craig's final book was a spy thriller, The Strasbourg Legacy (1975).
He married Eleanor Russell, who â as Eleanor Craig â 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).