[1][2] Watt attended Glen Ridge High School in Essex County, New Jersey, before reading English at Dartmouth College, graduating in the class of 1952.
[1] After graduating, Watt was commissioned as an ensign and spent three years serving in the United States Navy.
[1] In 1963, Watt published his first book, Dare Call It Treason: The True Story of the French Army Mutinies of 1917.
[3] Watt published his second book, The Kings Depart: The Tragedy of Germany: Versailles and the German Revolution in 1968.
[5] Anna M. Cienciala in the Slavic Review, broadly praised the work, describing it as a "well-written and well-balanced study of interwar Poland", but was critical of Watt's writings on foreign policy.