Saul David is a historian, broadcaster and the author of several critically acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction. His history books have been shortlisted for the Westminster Medal for Military Literature and variously named a Waterstones Military History Book of the Year and an Amazon History Book of the Year. He is Professor of Military History at the University of Buckingham.
Shortlisted for the 2021 British Army Military Book of the Year
Longlisted for the 2021 HWA Non-fiction Crown Awards
A BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year 2020
An Amazon.com History Book of the Month
A The Times Best Book of 2020
A Telegraph Best Book of 2020 ‘Gripping, even gruesome, yet deeply
moving … Sweeps us masterfully from a coral charnel house in the
Pacific to the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima’ David Reynolds ‘The
best book I’ve read on the Battle of Okinawa. Finally a military
historian has written a book which gives humanity to the Japanese,
without taking anything away from what the Americans endured and
achieved on that island … David fits perfectly into the fine
tradition of war books by Max Hastings and Antony Beevor. It’s war
at its most beautiful and most horrible’ Gerard deGroot ‘A superb
soldier’s-eye history of Okinawa, the Second World War’s ghastliest
battle … The meticulousness of his research really starts to
display itself … A highly readable and informative book that often
reads like a screenplay, but depicts suffering that was all too
real … [David] is peerless now among our military historians’
Daily Telegraph ‘David restores a human dimension to this battle –
both sides are brave, stoic, frightened, barbaric and occasionally
cowardly. This is narrative history at its most visceral as battles
unfold almost in real time … A gripping reconstruction of the
action’ Times 'Graphic and compelling … Written with style and
verve … David brings the ghastly mayhem of war to life in a vivid
way’ Literary Review 'Superbly researched, well-written … Reminds
us that the defining characteristic of war is the mass destruction
of individuals, both physically and psychologically’
Spectator ‘Brilliant … harrowing. The attention to detail is
exemplary: we see the conflict from just about every angle’
Keith Lowe, BBC History Magazine
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