Saul David is an award-winning military historian and broadcaster. His many critically-acclaimed history books include: The Indian Mutiny:1857 (shortlisted for the Westminster Medal for Military Literature); Zulu (a Waterstone’s Military History Book of the Year); Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport (an Amazon History Book of the Year, and later made into the motion picture Seven Days in Entebbe), and The Force: The Legendary Special Ops Unit and World War II’s Mission Impossible.

His latest book, Crucible of Hell: Okinawa – The Last Great Battle of World War II, was described by international bestselling historian Antony Beevor as “Excellent… Saul David’s gripping narrative is admirably clear.” It was also praised by in the Daily Telegraph: “Saul David…is peerless now among our military historians. A superb book that often reads like a screenplay, but depicts suffering that was all too real.”

Saul has presented and appeared in history progammes for TV channels in the UK and US, and is Professor of Military History at the University of Buckingham in the UK where he is Programme Director of the Master’s in Military History by Research.