Guy Walters
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Guy Walters (born August 8, 1971, Kensington, London) is a British author and journalist. A descendant of Richard Harris Barham, he was educated at Cheam School, Eton College and Westfield College, University of London (now part of Queen Mary, University of London).
After working at The Times from 1992 to 2000, he became a novelist. His first book, The Traitor, was published in 2002, and concerns the British Free Corps, a British unit of the Waffen-SS. The Leader (2003) is set in a Britain ruled by Oswald Mosley as a Fascist dictator. The Occupation (2004) takes place during the German Occupation of the Channel Islands. The Colditz Legacy (2005) is set in Colditz Castle during the war and the 1970s. With James Owen, he edited The Voice of War in 2004, a collection of Second World War memoirs. In 2006 he published Berlin Games, a history of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which was shortlisted for the 2006 William Hill Sports Book of the Year and the 2007 Outstanding Book of the Year by the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport.
In October 2007, as part of his research for his book Hunting Evil, Walters visited the alleged Nazi war criminal Erna Wallisch at her flat in Vienna, Austria. Wallisch, a former concentration camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek, was the seventh most wanted person on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of suspected war criminals from the Second World War period. Although Wallisch refused to talk to Walters, the news of his encounter was widely reported.
In March 2008, Walters wrote an article for the Daily Mail comparing the 2008 Beijing Olympics to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. "Those who believe that Beijing 2008 will improve China's shameful human rights record," he wrote, "are surely as myopic to the realities of modern China as the appeasers of the 1930s were towards Hitler."
Walters is represented by Tif Loehnis at Janklow & Nesbit (UK) Ltd. He lives near Salisbury in Wiltshire with his wife Annabel Venning, the author of Following The Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters Past and Present (2005). He has two children. His brother, Dominic Walters, is the picture editor of Country Life magazine.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Traitor (2002), ISBN 0755300564
- The Leader (2003), ISBN 0755300572
- The Voice of War: The Second World War Told by Those Who Fought It (2004), ISBN 0670914231 (ed. with James Owen)
- The Occupation (2004), ISBN 0755320646
- The Colditz Legacy (2005), ISBN 0755327152
- Berlin Games: How Hitler Stole the Olympic Dream (2006), ISBN 0719567831
- Hunting Evil: How the Nazi War Criminals Escaped and How They Were Tracked Down (2009)
