Updates

SBS: Silent Warriors has climbed to No. 4 in this week’s Sunday Times Top 10 Bestsellers with weekly hardback sales of 2,425.

Saul’s new book SBS: Silent Warriors was named The Times Audiobook of the Week. ‘It makes for cnthralling listening,’ wrote Christina Hardyment, ‘thanks to John Hopkins’s clipped, army-report style narration and David’s intensification of suspense by using memoirs and letters from those who survived and those who didn’t.’

Saul’s new book SBS: Silent Warriors is an instant Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller, entering the list in its first week at No. 9.

Saul’s new book has received a glowing review in today’s Times. Roger Boyes writes: ‘An extraordinary trawl though the archives, backed up with diaries and interviews; an accomplished act of storytelling… This is a book about big personalities, adventurers and inventors… Heroic history telling… An authorised history of a secret unit has to record not only the bravery of its unacknowledged warriors – which David has done with style – but also make a case for its strategic importance…  David has written a book that often gladdens the heart, but also makes you think about the nature of sacrifice.’

Reviewing Saul’s new book SBS: Silent Warriors in the Daily Mail, Nick Rennison wrote: ‘Riveting… A brilliant account of how the SBS was born from wartime needs, and just how much the organisation and its affiliated units were able to achieve in those early years.’ Click here to read the full review

Saul’s new book SBS: Silent Warriors was given the thumbs up by Admiral Lord (Alan) West in the Spectator: ‘A riveting story, and very British… [David] has shown great skill in pulling the disparate threads of unit reports into a cohesive story. This book is a must for naval and military historians. Beyond that, the knowledge of those involved, and their bravery and jeopardy, will grip the general reader.’ Click here to read the full review

Saul chats SBS, leaky canoes and midget submarines with Dan Snow on his HistoryHit podcast, the first interview for SBS: Silent Warriors, out on Thursday 2 September. Click here to listen

James Holland has heaped praise on Saul’s new book SBS: Silent Warriors with a 5-star review in today’s Daily Telegraph: ‘Fabulously daring missions of men of astonishing courage…relayed with all the relish of a Commando comic… A cast of Boys’ Own Heroes… A terrific book, written with all the gusto, thrills and heady excitement these SBS operations richly deserve. It really is one of the most enjoyable histories I’ve read in many a year.’ Click here to read the full review