in modern British history at the New College of the Humanities in London. In July and October 2020, he criticised restrictions and closures at British archives related to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, arguing that these were an enhanced continuation of reduced access enacted prior to the pandemic. Personal life Walters lives in Wiltshire with his wife the writer Annabel Venning and their two children. Selected publications Fiction The Traitor (2002), The Leader (2003), The Occupation (2004), The Colditz Legacy (2005), Diary of a Hapless Househusband (2007) (as Sam Holden), Growing Pains of a Hapless Househusband (2008) (as Sam Holden), Non-fiction The Voice of War: The Second World War Told by Those Who Fought It (2004), (ed. with James Owen) Berlin Games: How Hitler Stole the Olympic Dream (2006), Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals who Escaped and the Dramatic Hunt to Bring Them to Justice (2009), The Real Great Escape (2013), Nazis, Spies & Fakes: Ten Years at the Coalface of History (2013) Naumann's War: The Life of Werner Naumann from 1909 to 1945 (2016) References External links 1971 births Living people 21st-century British historians 21st-century British novelists Alumni of Westfield College British historical novelists British male novelists Historians of World War II People educated at Cheam School People educated at Eton College The Times people