My forebears were fantastically wealthy Armenians who came to England from India in the 19th century and did what foreign types do - they married into a penniless but well-bred local family. — Saul David Copy Share Image
Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the previous 12 Romanov rulers were also murdered, it is easy to regard Russia's imperial dynasty as cursed. — Saul David Copy Share Image
Even a moderniser like Alexander II - who emancipated the serfs in 1861 - had no intention of devolving real power. — Saul David Copy Share Image
By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than 50 million… — Saul David Copy Share Image
If getting a contract was relatively straightforward, writing fiction was far harder than I could have imagined, and there were moments during the long… — Saul David Copy Share Image
No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli. — Saul David Copy Share Image
If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment. — Saul David Copy Share Image
From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures and a… — Saul David Copy Share Image
By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December - it numbered fewer… — Saul David Copy Share Image
In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Second World War against weakly held U.S.… — Saul David Copy Share Image
I was brought up with a whole bunch of cousins in the Wye Valley during the hippy days of the 1970s. — Saul David Copy Share Image
History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the… — Saul David Copy Share Image
It is not enough just to get your forces from A to B - you have to keep them fed and watered as they… — Saul David Copy Share Image
The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus ending the 'Time of Troubles'… — Saul David Copy Share Image
