William Shawcross

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Biography

Writer and broadcaster William Shawcross was born on 28 May 1946 in Sussex, England, the son of Lord Shawcross. He was educated at Eton and University College, Oxford, and has worked as a journalist for the Sunday Times. He is a regular contributor to newspapers and periodicals including the New Statesman and the Washington Post.

He is the author of biographies of the Shah of Iran and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and of Deliver Us From Evil: Warlords and Peacekeepers in a World of Endless Conflict (2000), which addresses the complex moral and political arguments surrounding humanitarian intervention.

In 2004 he published Allies, an analysis of the alliance between Britian and the USA in the wake of the invasion of Iraq. His latest publication is Queen Elizabeth: The Official Biography of the Queen Mother (2009).

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Genres (in alphabetical order)

Biography, Non-fiction

Bibliography

Dubcek: Dubcek and Czechoslovakia 1918-1968   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970

Crime and Compromise: Janos Kadar and the Politics of Hungary Since Revolution   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974

Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia   (revised 1986)   André Deutsch, 1979

The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience   André Deutsch, 1984

Great Journeys   (contributor)   BBC Books, 1989

Kowtow!: After the Massacre - Peking, London and the Fate of Hong Kong   (Counterblasts no. 6)   Chatto & Windus, 1989

The Shah's Last Ride: The Story of the Exile, Misadventures and Death of the Emperor   Chatto & Windus, 1989

Dubcek: Dubcek and Czechoslovakia 1968-1990   Hogarth Press, 1990

Rupert Murdoch: Ringmaster of the Information Circus   Chatto & Windus, 1992

Deliver Us From Evil: Warlords and Peacekeepers in a World of Endless Conflict   (revised 2001)   Bloomsbury, 2000

Queen and Country   BBC Books, 2002

Allies   Atlantic, 2004

Queen Elizabeth: The Official Biography of the Queen Mother   Macmillan, 2009

Read about books by William Shawcross at encompassculture.com - the British Council's book database and global online book club

Buy books by William Shawcross at Amazon.co.uk

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Contact information

Publisher (General enquiries) Bloomsbury Publishing plc 38 Soho Square London  W1D 3HB England Tel: +44 (0)20 7494 2111 Fax: +44 (0)20 7434 0151 E-mail: publicity@bloomsbury.com http://www.bloomsbury.com

Agent Greene & Heaton Ltd 37 Goldhawk Road London  W12 8QQ England Tel: +44 (0)20 8749 0315 Fax: +44 (0)20 8749 0318 E-mail: info@greeneheaton.co.uk http://www.greeneheaton.co.uk

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