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Cover for new book

Thursday, January 29th, 2015

The US cover for Saul’s new book Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe – published by Little, Brown on 1 December 2015 – has just been released.Operation Thunderbolt_r2

AQA video

Thursday, January 29th, 2015

Saul’s video for the AQA examining board – to promote the new History A-Level – has just gone live. Click here.

Film tie-in

Friday, December 19th, 2014

The French film company StudioCanal is in negotiations to buy the rights to Saul’s forthcoming non-fiction book, ‘Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe’.

Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival

Tuesday, August 19th, 2014

Saul’s next talk will be at the Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival at 8.30pm on Monday 15 September. He will be interviewed by Paul Lay, editor of History Today, about his new book 100 Days to Victory. Click here to book

The Equine Army

Tuesday, August 19th, 2014

Saul’s latest film on horses during the First World War, ‘The Equine Army’, will be repeated on BBC4 on Monday 29 September at 8 a.m.

The Equine Army

Thursday, May 29th, 2014

Next Monday 2 June 2014, at 7.30pm, Saul will present The Equine Army for BBC1 in the West (to be repeated on BBC4) as part of the World War One at Home strand. For more details click here

Talk at Corsham Arts Festival

Thursday, May 29th, 2014

A week tomorrow, Friday 6 June 2014, Saul will give a talk on 100 Days to Victory at the Corsham Arts Festival. Click here for further details

Talk at Salisbury International Arts Festival

Thursday, May 29th, 2014

Saul’s next talk on 100 Days to Victory will be at the Salisbury International Arts Festival on Friday 30 May at 2.30 p.m. Click here for further details

Saul on BBC1’s The Big Questions

Friday, May 16th, 2014

At 10am this Sunday, 18 May 2014, Saul will appear on the panel of  BBC1’s The Big Questions, alongside Jeremy Paxman, Sir Hew Strachan. David Stevenson and others. Presented by Nicky Campbell, it asks the question: ‘Did the First World War change Britain for the better?’  Click here for details

Review of 100 Days in ES

Friday, May 16th, 2014

Lovely review of 100 Days to Victory in yesterday’s Evening Standard. William Leith wrote: ‘If you’re an ordinary person and you want to read one modern book on the First World War, this might well be it. Saul David has divided the war into 100 crucial days – and given us 100 well-told stories…recounted here with great skill.’