Churchill’s Sacrifice of the Highland Division: France 1940
On 12 June 1940, more than a week after the last British troops had been evacuated from Dunkirk, the 51st (Highland) Division, Scotland’s pride, was forced to surrender to General Erwin Rommel at St Valéry-en-Caux in Normandy……
Reviews of Churchill’s Sacrifice of the Highland Division: France 1940
"‘Deftly combining detailed documentation with impressive first-hand accounts, David never forgets the human cost of this “unsavoury horse-trading”… [He] perfectly conveys the shock and the shame of these proud Highlanders, more than 10,000 of whom were sent to prison camps’."
Ian Pindar, The Guardian
"David does full justice to this “forgotten piece” of history."
Military Illustrated
"David proves conclusively that Churchill allowed the Highlanders to be cut off."
Scotland on Sunday
"A well-researched history."
The Times
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.