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Residence
  
Wiltshire, England

Name
  
Guy Walters

Spouse
  
Annabel Venning

Children
  
2

Role
  
Author

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Born
  
Guy Edward Barham Walters 8 August 1971 (age 52) Kensington, London, England (
1971-08-08
)

Institutions
  
New College of the Humanities

Alma mater
  
Eton College Westfield College, University of London Newcastle University

Education
  
Westfield College, Cheam School, Eton College

Books
  
Hunting Evil, Berlin Games, The Traitor, Olympic Dream, The Leader

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Guy Edward Barham Walters (born 8 August 1971) is an English author, novelist, historian, academic and journalist.

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Life and career

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.

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." 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.

He lives in Wiltshire with his wife Annabel Venning and two children. His brother, Dominic Walters, was the picture editor of Country Life magazine.

References

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