Comments for Saul David, Historian, Novelist & Broadcaster

Comment on TX date for BBC4 Series ‘Bullets, Boots and Bandages” by saul

saul — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:19:58 +0000

Thanks Adrian, and good question. I’d make it in a shot. We’ll see.

Comment on More praise for Bullets, Boots and Biscuits by saul

saul — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:18:37 +0000

I’ve pitched it, but no thumbs-up yet!

Comment on More praise for Bullets, Boots and Biscuits by sam maguire

sam maguire — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:18:11 +0000

How about a book of the back of this TV?

Comment on Advance praise for Bullets, Boots and Bandages by Jeff Matthews

Jeff Matthews — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:47:09 +0000

I can’t watch this broadcast here in the States but I read the short article online. I think it should be mentioned how Napoleon’s horses all wore handmade shoes, as machine-made were not available until the 1850′s. Henry Burden’s horseshoes equipped most of the Union Army during the American Civil War. It takes a very good blacksmith fifteen to twenty minutes to fashion one pair of simple shoes. Two man-hours to shoe a horse this way is expected for today’s journeyman farrier. Imagine what is required for shoeing an entire army! Shoes typically wear out in a month of moderate use.
There would always be scavenging for shoes off of dead horses.
By our Civil War, armies commonly had traveling blacksmith forges on two-wheel carts. Napoleon surely had something similar, but they may have been lost or left behind.
Not only did Napoleon lack the essential shoes for his horses, he seems to have lost most of the needed tools. In “The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier”, Jakob Walter describes how their horses struggled over frozen ground because nobody had the tools to remove the “irons” from their hooves. Only a simple tool-roll would be needed for a farrier to do improvised work in the field, but even these were lacking.
Walter’s commandeered Russian horse went barefoot and had little trouble.

Comment on Advance praise for Bullets, Boots and Bandages by Adrian porter

Adrian porter — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:47:40 +0000

Sorry typed the wron email address yesterday. Adrian porter

Comment on TX date for BBC4 Series ‘Bullets, Boots and Bandages” by Adrian porter

Adrian porter — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:13:49 +0000

Hi I have wondered for a long time why a documentary has not been made about D day not the fighting but the logistics and build up and the ordering manufacturing and planing from malbures to matches. Tanks to toilet paper. A lot of people ho worked built and delivered the life blood down the reserve chain to the despatch ports and then on to the poined end justintime. Your program is a eye opener.

Comment on Saul at the Historical Writers’ Association Literary Festival by Hyun Estep

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Comment on Saul at the Historical Writers’ Association Literary Festival by shoe bench

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