his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse case Publications Watergate: The Full Inside Story (co-author, 1973)Crime and Compromise: Janos Kadar and the Politics of Hungary since Revolution (1974)Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia (1979), New York Times Editor's Choice Book of the Year, awarded a George Polk AwardThe Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience (1984), New York Times Editor's Choice Book of the Year, awarded the Freedom From Hunger Media Award (also published as Rupert Murdoch: Ringmaster of the Information Circus) (1992) Queen and Country: The Fifty-Year Reign of Elizabeth II (2002) Counting One's Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (2012) (editor) The Servant Queen and the King She Serves (2016) References External links Official website. William Shawcross on GOV.UK Official page as Commissioner for Public Appointments. William Shawcross on The GuardianBiography of William Shawcross by the British Council. Profile for The New Statesman (2003). Profile for The Independent (2015). Profile for The National (Scotland)'' (2022). 1946 births Living people British people of English descent People educated at St. Aubyns School People educated at Eton College Alumni of University College, Oxford Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order English biographers British biographers 20th-century biographers 21st-century biographers British male journalists Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse William Shawcross Male biographers Forte family Sons of life peers