Craig Brown, the chief critic of the Mail on Sunday has chosen Operation Thunderbolt as one of his Books of the Year. He wrote: ‘Other books I have greatly enjoyed this year include Saul David’s almost indecently exciting Operation Thunderbolt, a minute-by-minute narrative about the 1976 Israeli raid on Entebbe Airport to rescue 228 hostages.’
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.