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First in, Last Out: US Marines in the Pacific
The US Marines bore the brunt of the fighting in the Pacific.
First in, Last Out On August 12, 1942, five days after the 19,000-strong 1st Marine Division had landed unopposed on Guadalcanal in the British Solomon Islands, the first American ground offensive of the war, Sergeant Jim McEnery came upon the aftermath of a slaughter...
Episode 72
The Anglo-Zulu War with Saul David | RSS.com
Episode 61
US Marines in the Pacific & Ukraine with Saul David | RSS.com
Episodes 17 & 18
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Black Gold, by Jeremy Paxman
This is a significant contribution to the study of Britain's industrial past.
There are two stories that Jeremy Paxman tells in his new book, Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain. The first is the national story, how coal was the driver behind the Industrial Revolution and the British Empire. The country’s hunger for this black rock...
Operation Pedestal: Max Hastings interview with Saul David
The two acclaimed historians discuss the operation to relieve the key strategic island of Malta in 1942.
In the late summer of 1942, the Royal Navy embarked on an operation to relieve the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. With Axis forces surrounding Malta, the islanders were close to starvation until relief came in the form of Operation Pedestal. But it was an...
The new Military History Club Needs You!
A new club has been established by the renowned historian, Saul David.
Almost a quarter of a century on from the publication of Antony Beevor’s groundbreaking and prize-winning Stalingrad, military history is still big business with books by Max Hastings, James Holland and my own SBS: Silent Warriors gracing the UK bestseller charts this...
The Homicidal Earl: The Life of Lord Cardigan, by Saul David
One of Saul David's early books is revisited by Christopher Joll
The Homicidal Earl: The Life of Lord Cardigan Of all the cock-ups that provide shade from the bright light of Britain’s military successes, the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava, fought in the Crimea on 25th October 1854, is one of the most...
Crucible of Hell, by Saul David
The acclaimed historian has written a brilliant account of the Battle of Okinawa
Harry S. Truman’s decision to drop the bomb on Japan is inevitably controversial. The events of 6th August 1945, as ‘Little Boy’ was unleashed on Hiroshima, are brilliantly and tragically described by Saul David in Crucible of Hell. It is unpleasant to read of the...