Updates

Saul’s new 3-part series on BBC4 continues to garner critical acclaim: Metro wrote: ‘How much does it take to feed an army of 80,000 men?  Three hundred cattle a day, roughly.  That’s the kind of minute detail that makes this account so fascinating… Energetic and engaging military history professor Saul David is the man leading us into battle.’

The Evening Standard  described Saul as ‘ineffably dashing’ and the series  as ‘a fascinating glimpse into the humbler side of warfare’.

The Sunday Times chose episode 2 as its ‘Pick of the day’ and Saul as ‘an engaging and enthusiastic presenter’, while the Radio Times added: ‘Historian Saul David tells fascinating stories of how generals stole a march on the enemy in his second instalment about military logistics. But the great thing is that the real detail comes from other experts, including a farrier…  It’s superb stuff, taking in the jerrycan and D-Day’s Mulberry harbour, through the difficulties of the Falklands right up to the present day.’

Saul’s new book All the King’s Men was praised in two national newspapers today.   The Sunday Times  wrote: ‘The real strength of this book lies in the eloquent exposition of the battles themselves, and the generals who fought them… Those wishing to immerse themselves in the golden age of British military success will relish David’s fine piece of history.’  The Sunday Telegraph added: ‘Compelling history… The book takes us grippingly through three separate but linked global conflicts with France… David keeps the narrative going at a brisk canter.’ Click here for link

There was advance praise for ‘Bullets, Boots and Bandages’, Saul’s new 3-part TV series on the history of military logistics, which starts on BBC4 at 9pm on Thursday 2 February.   It was pick of the day in Times (‘a riveting new series’), Sunday Times (‘fascinating series’), Radio Times (said the story was ‘delivered in crisp and manly style by a historian who should attract a following of his own’), and the Mail on Sunday (a ‘thrilling range of examples’ and ‘a fascinating new perspective on familiar history’).

One Minute interview with Saul in today\’s Independent

To hear Saul talking about his new book, click the following link: Saul on YouTube

Saul’s new 3 -part BBC4 series on the history of military logistics – ‘Bullets, Boots and Bandages: How to Really Win at War’ – will start at 9pm on Thursday 2 February 2012, and continue for two more weeks.  It coincides with the publication of his new book, All the King’s Men: The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo.

Saul opens the video for the new bite-size Penguin Shorts, talking about his ebook ‘Isandlwana’, part of the Great Battle series.  Penguin Shorts

On 1 December Penguin launches its Shorts , a series of digital-only publications, and Saul is one of the nine guinea-pigs with a 10,000 word essay on Isandlwana (part of a Great Battle series), taken from his bestselling history Zulu.   Price £1.99.  Bargain. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-digital-short-works-series-penguin.html

Five page interview by Jacinto Anton in Spanish Sunday El Pais describes Saul as a ‘Famoso historiador militar britanico’, and adds: ‘David es un hombre de aspecto atletico, juvenil, vital y resuelto.  Un tipo lo que se dice attractivo’.   Click here for full text.