:Pete Davies

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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.{{cite news |title=The resourceful traveler. |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-8796468_ITM |work=Chicago Tribune |date=August 21, 2002 |access-date=2009-01-17 }}{{cite news |title=Country Roads, Take Us Home |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/178946581.html?dids=178946581:178946581&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Sep+15%2C+2002&author=JONATHAN+KIRSCH&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=WESTWORDS%3B+Country+Roads%2C+Take+Us+Home%3B+AMERICAN+ROAD%3A+The+Story+of+an+Epic+Transcontinental+Journey+at+the+Dawn+of+the+Motor+Age%2C+By+Pete+Davies%2C+Henry+Holt%3A+276+pp.%2C+%2426+AMBOS+NOGALES%3A+Intimate+Portraits+of+the+U.S.-Mexico+Border%2C+Photographs+by+Maeve+Hickey%2C+Text+by+Lawrence+Taylor%2C+School+of+American+Research+Press%3A+138+pp.%2C+%2417.95&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525142253/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/178946581.html?dids=178946581:178946581&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Sep+15,+2002&author=JONATHAN+KIRSCH&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=WESTWORDS%3B+Country+Roads,+Take+Us+Home%3B+AMERICAN+ROAD:+The+Story+of+an+Epic+Transcontinental+Journey+at+the+Dawn+of+the+Motor+Age,+By+Pete+Davies,+Henry+Holt:+276+pp.,+$26+AMBOS+NOGALES:+Intimate+Portraits+of+the+U.S.-Mexico+Border,+Photographs+by+Maeve+Hickey,+Text+by+Lawrence+Taylor,+School+of+American+Research+Press:+138+pp.,+$17.95&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 May 2011 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=September 15, 2002 |access-date=2009-01-17 | first=Jonathan | last=Kirsch}} His newspaper clippings are part of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.{{cite web|url=http://eisenhower.archives.gov/Research/Finding_Aids/D.html|title=Eisenhower Presidential Library|website=eisenhower.archives.gov}}

Davies' All Played Out, an eyewitness account of the England men's football team at the 1990 World Cup,{{cite magazine |last=Dawson|first=Tom|url=http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/one-night-in-turin|title=One Night In Turin|magazine=Total Film|date=27 April 2010|access-date=30 June 2014}}{{cite book |title= One Night in Turin: The Inside Story of a World Cup that Changed our Footballing Nation Forever [Paperback]|date=15 April 2010|id= {{ASIN|0224083341|country=uk}}}}{{cite news|url=http://www.thesportsbookreview.com/2014/01/28/book-review-all-played-out-the-full-story-of-italia-90-pete-davies-also-published-as-one-night-in-turin/|title=Book Review: All Played Out: The Full Story of Italia '90 – Pete Davies (also published as One Night in Turin)|publisher=The Sports Book Review|date=28 January 2014|access-date=30 June 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309050801/http://thesportsbookreview.com/2014/01/28/book-review-all-played-out-the-full-story-of-italia-90-pete-davies-also-published-as-one-night-in-turin/|archive-date=9 March 2014}}{{cite news |last=Quinn|first=Anthony|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/one-night-in-turin-15-1965330.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/one-night-in-turin-15-1965330.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=One Night in Turin (15)|newspaper=The Independent|date=7 May 2010|access-date=30 June 2014}} was adapted into One Night in Turin, a documentary film, in 2010.{{cite magazine |last=Jenkins|first=David|url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/one-night-in-turin-2010|title=One Night in Turin (15)|magazine=Time Out|date=4 May 2010|access-date=30 June 2014}} The original book has been described as "the best football book ever written".{{cite news|last1=Wilson|first1=Paul|title=This Man Works For Sainsbury's. He Also Wrote The Best Football Book Ever|url=http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/sport/6486/pete-davies-all-played-out-football-book/|access-date=14 April 2015|publisher=Esquire (UK Edition)|date=14 June 2014}}

In 1994–95, 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.{{cite news|title=Huddersfield writer Pete Davies sees World Cup story brought to cinema screens|access-date=14 April 2015|newspaper=Huddersfield Daily Examiner|date=11 May 2010|url=http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/huddersfield-writer-pete-davies-sees-4998113}}

• (1986) Last Election
• (1989) Dollarville
• (2017) Playlist

• (1990) All Played Out
• (1992) Storm Country: A Journey to the Heart of America
• (1994) Twenty-Two Foreigners in Funny Shorts: The Intelligent Fan's Guide to Soccer and World Cup '94
• (1996) I Lost My Heart to The Belles
• (1998) This England
• (1998) Mad Dogs and English Women
• (1999) Catching Cold; published in the United States as The Devil's Flu: The World's Deadliest Influenza Epidemic and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus That Caused It
• (2001) The Devil's Music: Into the Eye of the Hurricane
• (2002) American Road

• 2010 One Night in Turin — directed by James Erskine

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