Susan Williams (historian) explained

Awards:	Windham Campbell Prize 2023
Occupation:	Historian and author
Employer:	Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London

Susan Williams is a historian and author, based in London. Her latest book is White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa, published in 2021.^{[1] [2]} Her other publications include: The People's King: The True Story of the Abdication, a book about the abdication of Edward VIII, published in 2003;^[3] and Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation, published in 2006,^[4] on which the 2016 film A United Kingdom is based.^{[5] [6]}

Her book Who Killed Hammarskjold? (2011),^{[7] [8]} about the death in 1961 of the then-United Nations Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, triggered a new UN investigation in 2015.

In Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II. she tells the intricate tale of a special unit of the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA, that was set up to purchase and secretly remove all the uranium from the unique uranium mine in Katanga province Shinkolobwe in Belgian Congo that the US could get its hands on and keep out of the hands of the Axis powers. The uranium was to be used in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Williams is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.^[9]

She was the recipient of a 2023 Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction.^[10]

Books

• White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa, PublicAffairs, 2021.
• Spies in the Congo: America’s Atomic Mission in World War II, PublicAffairs, 2016.
• Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa, London: Hurst, 2011.
• Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation, Allen Lane, 2006. – on the founding president of Botswana
• The People’s King: The True Story of the Abdication, Allen Lane, 2003. – on the abdication of Edward VIII
• Ladies of influence: women of the elite in interwar Britain, Allen Lane, 2000.

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: White Malice. 2021-08-11. Kirkus.
2. Web site: Norton-Taylor . Richard . 26 October 2021 . Did Britain help murder an African leader and U.N. secretary general? . 17 January 2023 . . en-US.
3. News: Did the people want Wallis? . Roberts, Andrew . Andrew Roberts (historian) . 2003-08-24. . 2018-01-28.
4. News: The bride wore black . The Guardian. Benn, Melissa . Melissa Benn . 2006-08-19 . 2018-01-28.
5. Web site: Dr Susan Williams . . 2018-01-28.
6. Web site: Susan Williams . . 2018-01-28.
7. News: Man accused of shooting down UN chief: 'Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to…' . Graham-Harrison, Emma; Rocksen, Andreas; and Brügger, Mads . 2019-01-12 . . 2019-01-13.
8. News: Who Killed Hammarskjöld? by Susan Williams . Bordeaux . Michael . 2017-05-19 . . 2018-01-28.
9. Web site: Susan Williams. . 2018-01-28.
10. Web site: 2023 Prize Recipients. Windham Campbell Prizes 2023. Windham Campbell Prizes. 21 April 2023.