Guy Walters Books In Order

Novels

The Traitor (2002)
The Leader (2003)
The Occupation (2004)
The Colditz Legacy (2005)

Non fiction

The Voice of War (2004)
Berlin Games (2006)
Hunting Evil (2009)
The Real Great Escape (2011)
Na*zis, Spies & Fakes (2013)
Naumann’s War (2016)

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The Traitor

There was something powerful about it, something magnetic. He had witnessed the effect of such uniforms in the newsreels; now he was about to wear one. But this SS uniform the uniform proudly worn by so many maniacs and murderers bore a Union Jack…
It was an insult to King and Country. In November 1943 the Na*zis capture British secret agent John Lockhart while he is on a Resistance mission to German occupied Crete. They give him a stark choice: betray his country or die. In a decision some might consider treason and moral folly, Lockhart acts out of love and strikes a bargain with his captors: in return for his wife, who is interned in a concentration camp, he will change sides. But he is stunned to learn that his mission is to lead the British Free Corps, a clandestine unit of the SS composed of British fascists and renegades culled from POW camps. Aware that he, like them, will be branded a traitor, Lockhart seeks to redeem himself by destroying a terrifying secret weapon that threatens to change the course of history.

The Occupation

February 1945. As the Allies make great gains in France, the Channel Islands remain a bastion of Na*zi occupied territory. On Jersey, Lieutenant Colonel Max von Luck is in charge of liaising with the civilian population. He has little time for his fanatical colleagues, and has earned the respect of many of the Islanders. In his bunker in Berlin, Hitler decides to deploy the V3 a weapon so secret that even the slave labourers constructing it deep beneath the island of Alderney do not know its exact purpose. June 1990. Workmen digging the foundations for a new hotel start to fall sick. Their illness is similar to that suffered by many islanders over the past half century. Journalist Robert Lebonneur is suspicious. Then he finds a diary written by Lieutenant Colonel Max von Luck during the wartime occupation. The diary makes it clear that much more is at stake than a mysterious illness. As Lebonneur investigates, he begins to run into the same dark forces that von Luck found himslf up against nearly half a century before…

The Voice of War

The Second World War was the first truly global conflict and sixty years on its consequences continue to shape the modern world. Season by season The Voice of War charts the course of the central event of the twentieth century using the diaries, letters and memoirs of those who were there, from Russian women fighter pilots to the prisoners of the Japanese to Londoners enduring the Blitz. Their first hand accounts place us on the ramparts of Colditz, in the hiding places of the Warsaw Ghetto, aboard a dive bomber at Pearl Harbor, with Rommel in the desert and by Churchill’s side in Downing Street. Unrivalled in the immediacy, range and power of the experiences it contains, it includes writing by, among others, Joseph Goebbels, Benito Mussolini, Christabel Bielenberg, Noel Coward, Robert Capa, Airey Neave, George Patton, Hermione Ranfurly, Arthur Koestler, James Lees Milne, Martha Gellhorn, Sophia Loren and Primo Levi. Ambitious, instructive and entertaining, this is the definitive portrait of a world at war.

Berlin Games

IN 1936, Adolf Hitler welcomed the world to Berlin to attend the Olympic Games. It promised to be not only a magnificent sporting event but also a grand showcase for the rebuilt Germany. No effort was spared to present the Third Reich as the newest global power. But beneath the glittering surface, the Games of the Eleventh Olympiad of the Modern Era came to act as a crucible for the dark political forces that were gathering, foreshadowing the bloody conflict to come. The 1936 Olympics were nothing less than the most political sporting event of the last century an epic clash between proponents of barbarism and those of civilization, both of whom tried to use the Games to promote their own values. Berlin Games is the complete history of those fateful two weeks in August. It is a story of the athletes and their accomplishments, an eye opening account of the Na*zi machine’s brazen attempt to use the Games as a model of Aryan superiority and fascist efficiency, and a devastating indictment of the manipulative power games of politicians, diplomats, and Olympic officials that would ultimately have profound consequences for the entire world.

Hunting Evil

Already acclaimed in England as ‘first rate’ The Sunday Times; a model of meticulous, courageous and path breaking scholarship’Literary Review; and ‘absorbing and thoroughly gripping deserves a lasting place among histories of the war. The Sunday Telegraph, Hunting Evil is the first complete and definitive account of how the Na*zis escaped and were pursued and captured or managed to live long lives as fugitives. At the end of the Second World War, an estimated 30,000 Na*zi war criminals fled from justice, including some of the highest ranking members of the Na*zi Party. Many of them have names that resonate deeply in twentieth century history Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann, and Klaus Barbie not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers. Aided and abetted by prominent people throughout Europe, they hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, and were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic, featuring vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, and daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives. In this exhaustively researched and compellingly written work of World War II history and investigative reporting, journalist and novelist Guy Walters gives a comprehensive account of one of the most shocking and important aspects of the war: how the most notorious Na*zi war criminals escaped justice, how they were pursued, captured or able to remain free until their natural deaths and how the Na*zis were assisted while they were on the run by ‘helpers’ ranging from a Vatican bishop to a British camel doctor, and even members of Western intelligence services. Based on all new interviews with Na*zi hunters and former Na*zis and intelligence agents, travels along the actual escape routes, and archival research in Germany, Britain, the United States, Austria, and Italy, Hunting Evil authoritatively debunks much of what has previously been understood about Na*zis and Na*zi hunters in the post war era, including myths about the alleged Spider and Odessa escape networks and the surprising truth about the world’s most legendary Na*zi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. From its haunting chronicle of the monstrous mass murders the Na*zis perpetrated and the murky details of their postwar existence to the challenges of hunting them down, Hunting Evil is a monumental work of nonfiction written with the pacing and intrigue of a thriller. From the Hardcover edition.