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.
Saul David is an historian, broadcaster and the author of several critically-acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction.
His history books include Military Blunders, 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, All The King's Men: The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo. He has also written two bestselling novels, Zulu Hart and Hart of Empire, and edited the war diaries and letters of a Great War subaltern,Mud & Bodies. His latest work of history - 100 Days to Victory:How the Great War was Fought and Won - will be published on 12 September 2013.