Nice of José Padilha to acknowledge the central role that Saul’s book played in the making of his motion picture ‘7 Days of Entebbe’. He said: ‘There’s been a recent book written by British historian Saul David that we based the screenplay on. [It contains] years of research… and, basically, Saul argues that the operation was successful because of the terrorists’ Click here to read the full interview
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.