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unusual facts about William Craig



1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings

William Craig, leader of the Unionist Vanguard movement, addressed a meeting of right-wing MPs in Westminster who belonged to the Monday Club on 19 October during which he claimed he could mobilise 80,000 men who "are prepared to come out and shoot and kill".

William Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne

Among his intimate friends were Henry Mackenzie, Robert Cullen, William Craig, Hugh Blair, Erskine and Alexander Abercromby.


see also

Enemy at the Gate

Enemy at the Gates, a 2001 film starring Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes, partly based on William Craig's book.

Vasily Zaytsev

In 2001, a feature length film, Enemy at the Gates, starring Jude Law as Zaytsev, was based on part of William Craig's book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, which includes a "sniper's duel" between Zaytsev and a Wehrmacht sniper school director, Major Erwin König.