Guy Walters
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Guy Walters, November 2014
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| Born | Guy Edward Barham Walters 8 August 1971 Kensington, London, England |
| Residence | Wiltshire, England |
| Institutions | New College of the Humanities |
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Eton College Westfield College, University of London Newcastle University |
| Spouse | Annabel Venning |
| Children | 2 |
Guy Edward Barham Walters (born 8 August 1971) is an English author, novelist, historian, academic and journalist.
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 PhD in history at Newcastle University. 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-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.
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