Guy Walters
@guywalters.bsky.social
Historian, hack, presenter, runner. Sometimes wears dodgy trousers. guy@guywalters.com
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Hitler's Games: Berlin 1936 in Colour
The story of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Hitler, Nazi propaganda and Jesse Owens' defiance
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Guy Walters@guywalters.bsky.social · 4d agoDo tune into Channel 4 tonight (Saturday) to watch this doc on the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It's fantastic, despite me.
This was listed in the Best TV of the Weekend in my weekly @thetimes.com TV newsletter. With @guywalters.bsky.social as one of the talking heads is an added bonus.
Guy Walters@guywalters.bsky.social · 4d agoDo tune into Channel 4 tonight (Saturday) to watch this doc on the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It's fantastic, despite me.
Do tune into Channel 4 tonight (Saturday) to watch this doc on the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It's fantastic, despite me.
Holy moly! The social media account I definitely needed
Guy, just finished Stealing Hitler's Rocket. What an utterly brilliant story, extremely well told. Thanks for shedding some light on the Polish Home Army. RV remains a legend.
Excellent Withnail & I reference in Endeavour. Four floors up on the Charing Cross Road and never a job at the top of them.
Love that Tripsmiths have launched the 'Guy Walters Collection', which makes me sound like a fashion brand. Do join me on either – or both! – of these trips: Prague 1939-1989, 19-23 Oct 26 Colditz & Great Escape, 12-17 Apr 27 tripsmiths.com/guy
If it’s 21 July, it’s the 84th anniversary of the arrest of German spy Victor Hauer outside a Cairo cinema, leading to the rounding up of a spy ring, but only after a British Captain had allowed a belly dancer to see his secret plans… probably best if you just read @guywalters.bsky.social’s account
'Yvette', the spy who really wasn't
Or, how journalists can screw up the historical record
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Football, Falklands, fascism: The dark soul of Argentina... My piece in the Telegraph today... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...
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Football, Falklands, fascism: The dark soul of Argentina... My piece in the Telegraph today... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...
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Vital prep for my Tripsmiths Prague tour in Oct. It will tell the extraordinary 50-year story of the city and country from 1939 to 1989, from Nazi Occupation, through to Velvet Revolution. Oh, and the beer is good. A few places are still available... tripsmiths.com/tours/prague...
Vital prep for my Tripsmiths Prague tour in Oct. It will tell the extraordinary 50-year story of the city and country from 1939 to 1989, from Nazi Occupation, through to Velvet Revolution. Oh, and the beer is good. A few places are still available... tripsmiths.com/tours/prague...
Every time I find a moth I don’t know (this is often – there are thousands of them) I haul out the field guide and am reminded of the magnificence of moth names. Festoon Buff arches Lackey Drinker Least carpet Argent and sable Blomer’s rivulet Seraphim Dewick’s plusia Chamomile shark Angle shades
If you're a sports nut, then you should subscribe to the new show, Starling on Sport, hosted by my friend Boris Starling who seems to know everything about every sport. In the first episode he talks about the forthcoming Tour de France... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAXx...
Starling on Sport: Tour De France
YouTube video by The Critic Show
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Celebrating @guywalters.bsky.social’s fantastic new book, with reflections on why stories of spies and subterfuge are quite so captivating, and how often it’s the true ones that are the most audacious: open.substack.com/pub/kathryns...
Stealing Hitler's Rocket
Spies, secret missions, and a superb new book
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Mitteleuropa train travel: How It's Started vs How It's Going
I know, but it’s not @guywalters.bsky.social - it’s the second part of my bit on the (un)readiness of the French Air Force for Blitzkrieg in 1940… achurchill.substack.com/p/article-th...
