Peter George

Peter Bryan George (March 24, 1924 - June 11, 1966) was a British author, most famous for the 1958 Cold War thriller novel Red Alert, also known as Two Hours to Doom, written under the pen name Peter Bryant. The book was the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's classic film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. He was born in Treorchy, Wales, and died in Hastings, East Sussex by suicide. George was deeply committed to... more

Peter Bryan George (March 24, 1924 - June 11, 1966) was a British author, most famous for the 1958 Cold War thriller novel Red Alert, also known as Two Hours to Doom, written under the pen name Peter Bryant. The book was the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's classic film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. He was born in Treorchy, Wales, and died in Hastings, East Sussex by suicide. George was deeply committed to nuclear disarmament and had been a Flight Lieutenant serving as a navigator in the Royal Air Force (RAF). His best-known novel, Red Alert was written while a serving RAF officer, (hence the original use of a pseudonym: Peter Bryant - the Bryan being taken from his middle name). Drawn from personal experience, Red Alert was the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's classic film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Due to interest in nuclear themes sparked by Stanley Kramer's film version of On the Beach in 1959,... less