Fiction
'Saul David has already shown himself to be a first rate historian, now he proves to be a masterly story-teller...'
About Saul
Saul David is an historian, broadcaster and the author of several critically-acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction.
His books include The Indian Mutiny: 1857 (shortlisted for the Westminster Medal for Military Literature), Zulu: the Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 (a Waterstone's Military History Book of the Year) and, most recently, the novels Zulu Hart and Hart of Empire. His latest work of history - All The King's Men: The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo - was published by Penguin on 2 February 2012. 'Those wishing to immerse themselves in this golden age of British military success will relish David's fine piece of history.' (Sunday Times)
News & Events
Latest news and planned events from Saul.
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31.03.2013
Saul will present two items on ITV1′s upcoming series Britain’s Secret Homes, a primetime broadcast in June 2013. He will investigate: Clifton House , Belfast’s poor house which was at the epicentre of Northern Ireland’s industrial revolution; and Balaklava House in Norfolk, the home of the last survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade.
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26.02.2013
The paperback of All The King’s Men, with its original cover and new subtitle (‘The British Redcoat in the Age of Sword and Musket’) is published on 28 February 2013.
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12.07.2012
Next Monday 16 July, at 8pm, Saul makes his debut on ITV1 as a guest presenter on Episode 1 of Britain’s Secret Treasures, hosted by Bettany Hughes and Michael Buerk. Click here for details
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29.06.2012
Much looking forward to discussing my new book, All the King’s Men, at the Chalke Valley History Festival in Wiltshire on Sunday 1 July. Click here for details.
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15.02.2012
The Sunday Times chose this Thursday’s episode 3 of Bullets, Boots and Bandages as a Critics’ choice: ‘Professor Saul David’s excellent series on military logistics turns to the “story of kit”, which gives him the opportunity to prance about wearing camouflaged body armour and “ballistic underwear” designed to protect the soldiers’ crown jewels from IEDs.’
The Radio Times added: ‘Saul David gets to grip with the latest kit in his excellent series about the nuts and bolts of warfare. This final instalment starts with a longbow and we then get a brisk jog through the industrialisation of warfare. But its also full of offbeat information – the Bank of England was set up to borrow money to finance wars; and schoolchildren collected conkers to make cordite in the First World War. Give this man another series, and quickly.’
AA Gill, also in the Sunday Times, put the boot in: ‘Bullets, Boots and Bandages did for war what Moneball does for sport: extract the romance. Saul David is the latest eager young military historian who has gone up the line to death, walking and talking and holding up bits of murderous kit as if they were vibrators found in hotel drawers.’ Shame he didn’t watch episode one (food and health) where the murderous kit was conspicuous by its absence.
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13.02.2012
Saul’s next talk about his new book All the King’s Men is at Topping’s Bookshop in Bath at 7.30 pm on Thursday 16 February. Click here for more details
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10.02.2012
Saul’s new e-book ‘Great Military Commanders: Marlborough, Wellington and Slim’ is now available to download from Amazon Click here
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9.02.2012
Today’s Daily Mail includes a two-page feature (‘Heroes Treated Like Scum) on Saul’s new book All the King’s Men. Click here to read
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8.02.2012
Saul is giving a talk this evening on ‘Wellington: The Iron Duke’ at the National Army Museum Click here for details
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6.02.2012
BBC Five Live’s Richard Bacon tweets that Saul’s new series Boots, Bullets and Bandages is ‘bloody good’ Click here for link
Broadcasting
An experienced TV and radio broadcaster.
Saul has presented and appeared in history programmes for all the major TV channels and is a regular on Radio 4. Visit the Broadcasting page for a full list of credits. His 3 x 1 hour series on the history of military logistics - Bullets, Boots and Bandages: How Wars are Really Won - was shown in February 2012 on BBC4. The Times described the series as 'riveting', the Sunday Times thought it was 'excellent', and the Radio Times wrote: 'Give this man another series, and quickly.'