Pete Davies is an English author of history and sports.
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He wrote American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age about the 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy, for which Davies visited sites along the Lincoln Highway.[1][2] His newspaper clippings are part of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.[3]
Davies' All Played Out, an eyewitness account of the England men's football team at the 1990 World Cup,[4][5][6][7] was adapted into One Night in Turin, a documentary film, in 2010.[8] The original book has been described as "the best football book ever written".[9]
In1994–95, Davies turned his attentions to women's football and spent the season with Doncaster Belles while writing I Lost my Heart to the Belles.
Davies settled in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, where in 2010 he worked at the local Sainsbury's supermarket and had a season ticket for Huddersfield Town.[10]
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