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Award winning historian and broadcaster Saul David will give a unique insight into the War in Ukraine amidst the election of a new US President and immediately following one of his many visits to the frontline.
Saul David is a Sunday Times bestselling military historian, novelist and broadcaster. His history books include The Indian Mutiny (Westminster Medal for Military Literature), Zulu (a Waterstone’s Military History Book of the Year), and Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport (Amazon History Book of the Year). The film rights for Operation Thunderbolt were bought by Hollywood’s Participant Media and used in the making of the motion picture ‘Seven Days in Entebbe’ with Rosamund Pike which was released to huge acclaim in 2018. In 2019, he brought out The Force: The legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII’s Mission and Crucible of Hell: Okinawa – The Last Great Battle of the Second World War. Simon Heffer described Saul as ‘peerless now among our military historians’. SBS: Silent Warriors – The Authorized Wartime History was published in 2021 to universal praise. It was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller, entering the list at No. 7 and climbing to No. 2. It was also shortlisted for the Maritime Foundation’s Mountbatten Award for Best Book of 2022. Saul has also written Devil Dogs: First In, Last Out – King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan, about a company of marines fighting its way through the Pacific which was named a Times/Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph History Book of the Year. His latest book Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War was published on 25 April 2024. Saul has also written three bestselling historical novels, Zulu Hart, Hart of Empire and The Prince and the Whitechapel Murders. Saul has presented and appeared in history programmes for all the major TV and streaming channels. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Professorial Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham and Mr Gallimore’s Klepper kayak partner.
In March 2022, Saul began co-hosting the Battleground Ukraine podcast with fellow military historian Patrick Bishop. The podcast has grown in popularity and now exceeds 200,000 downloads a week.