BOOKS
BEING THERE: Titanic, Marlon Brando and the
Luger Pistol
A life in which Peter Williams, wittily and dramatically, portrays: the inside story of milestone events over the last 50 years, and the lessons to be drawn from them.
"This is a terrific book."
Professor Michael Irwin
Professor Michael Irwin
"Peter has told truth to power, held our masters to account and celebrated extraordinary people...a remarkable book by a remarkable journalist."
Sir Clive Jones....
"Peter was always worth reading. And after 50 years (in television), he still is."
Sir Jeremy Isaacs.
IN BLACK AND WHITE - The History of the Kent Coalfield The History of the Kent Coalfield
The County of Kent, with its hop gardens, oasthouses and orchards, is known around the world as the Garden of England. In the 1920s, plans were drawn up to transform it into a new, industrial Black Country of coalmines and ironworks.
Men starved of work during The Depression flocked to Kent, seeking jobs in the 18 new collieries promised by Neville Chamberlain, who would soon become Britain’s Prime Minister. Tens of thousands of men settled in Kent, with their families, and they stayed even when Britain’s collieries closed in the 1980s.
But, like any immigrants, they were strangers in an established community, folk who lived off the land rather than beneath it.
Peter Williams tells the unique story of a century of Kent coal. It is a story of love and hate, great triumphs and crushing disappointments, team spirit and laughter, and conflict at the highest level of Government.
Publisher: PWTV 2019 - First Edition 2019: ISBN 978-1-9161936-1-1
Second Edition 2020: ISBN 978-1-9161936-2-8
"A well-written, intriguing slice of social history by Peter Williams ... a worthy obituary of a now-vanished Industry."
Daily Mail, January 2020
UNIT 731: Japanese Biological Warfare Experiments in World War II (with David Wallace)
The biological warfare experiments carried out by the Japanese Army's Unit 731 on Allied prisoners of war, and the secret deal that took the results of those experiments to the US laboratories at Fort Detrick in Maryland. Peter Williams talks to the architects of that deal, names the Japanese scientists who carried out this appalling work, and reveals how they escaped prosecution as war criminals. The book poses the question: Did Emperor Hirohito know of these Top Secret freezing, ballistic and live vivisection experiments on human beings?
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton 1989
ISBN 0-340-39463-3
In paperback, Grafton Books 1990
ISBN 0-586-20822-4
ISBN 0-586-20822-4
McINDOE'S ARMY: The Guinea Pig Club
(with Ted Harrison)
Sir Archibald McIndoe and his team at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead pioneered many new techniques in plastic, reconstructive surgery, as they rebuilt the faces and bodies of young airmen cruelly disfigured in World War Two. But McIndoe also realised that rebuilding confidence and personality was also a vital part of his job. In an atmosphere of comradeship and humour, this is the story of how these self-styled "Guinea Pigs" returned to the outside world.
Publisher: Pelham 1979
ISBN 0720711916
ISBN 0720711916
Paperback:, Sphere Books 1981
LYNN DAVIES: Winner Stakes All
Lynn Davies - the first athlete in the world to hold simultaneously three Gold Medals in his event, the long jump, won at the Olympic, European and Commonwealth Games. The book examines his attitude to victory and defeat ... "I'm afraid of allowing myself to accommodate an image of Lynn Davies as a loser" ...talks to Davies' family, friends and rivals and offers an insight into his punishing training schedule.
Publisher: Pelham 1970
ISBN 7207 0354 9
