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historian novelist

Guy Edward Barham Walters is an English author, novelist, historian, academic and journalist.

Background

Walters was born in Kensington, London. A descendant of Richard Harris Barham and Edward Augustus Bond, he was educated at Cheam School, Eton College, Westfield College, University of London (now part of Queen Mary, University of London), and is studying for a Doctor of Philosophy in history at Newcastle University.

Education

Eton College; Westfield College.

Career

His thesis is on the postwar activities of Werner Naumann. From 1992 to 2000 he worked at The Times. His first book, The Traitor, was published in 2002, and concerns the British Free Corps, a British unit of the Waffen-Steamship 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 2009, Walters published Hunting Evil, a history of how the Nazi war criminals escaped after the war, and how they were brought to justice. "Frustrated at the enormous amount of junk history around, Guy sees it as his personal mission to wage war on ignorance and misconceptions about the past".

He was scathing about the Hitler Conspiracy book and film Grey Wolf describing it as "2,000 per cent rubbish".

Writing in the Daily Mail Walters has raised questions regarding the veracity of Denis Avey"s claims to have smuggled himself into Auschwitz and about fraudulent Holocaust memoirs generally, and has questioned the level of acclaim given to Mary Seacole. He has written for The Telegraph, Daily Mail, and New Statesman. In June 2013, he accepted the position of Lecturer in Modern British History at the New College of the Humanities in London.

Achievements

  • 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.