A New History of the Second World War from the Sunday Times Bestselling Author of SBS Saul David
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.
PRAISE FOR DEVIL DOGS ‘Exquisite detail…subtly textured… the
Pacific War is rendered in painful and poignant detail… A narrative
that reads like war in real time. It's war unplugged: cruelty,
destruction, pain, but also love, kindness and camaraderie. I cried
for these men and then thanked God that I will never have to send
my son to war.’ Times ‘Brilliant… A chronicle that is part Hollwood
film-script, but never less than vigorously researched history.
David has a claim to be our finest military historian… Superb’
’Daily Telegraph ‘David recounts in this stirring saga the WWII
campaigns of Company K, the 1st Marine Division unit … Skillfully
plumbing the rich array of firsthand accounts by Company K
veterans, David vividly describes pillbox raids, accidental deaths,
and hellish jungle conditions, and draws incisive portraits of
Marine officers and their command decisions. The result is a
captivating chronicle of the war in the Pacific’
Publishers Weekly PRAISE FOR SBS: SILENT WARRIORS A SUNDAY TIMES #4
BESTSELLER A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 ‘This is
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’
James Holland, Daily Telegraph, five stars ‘It’s an extraordinary
trawl through the archives, backed up with diaries and interviews;
an accomplished act of storytelling… David has written a book that
often gladdens the heart, but also makes you think about the nature
of sacrifice’
Times ‘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’
Daily Mail
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