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> [If getting a contract was relatively straightforward, writing fiction was far harder than I could have imagined, and there were moments during the long and torturous edit process when it seemed that 'Zulu Hart,' the first of the trilogy, would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/if-getting-a-contract-was-relatively-straightforward-writing-fiction/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

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## More by Saul David

> [Even a moderniser like Alexander II - who emancipated the serfs in 1861 - had no intention of devolving real power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/even-a-moderniser-like-alexander-ii-who-emancipated-the-serfs-in-1861/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

> [By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than 50 million…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/by-1917-thanks-to-the-new-munitions-factories-and-the-women-that/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

> [If getting a contract was relatively straightforward, writing fiction was far harder than I could have imagined, and there were moments during the long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/if-getting-a-contract-was-relatively-straightforward-writing-fiction/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

> [No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/no-campaign-of-the-first-world-war-better-justifies-the-poets-view-of/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

> [If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/if-i-m-at-a-book-signing-and-someone-decides-to-take-me-to-task-it/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

> [From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/from-1801-napoleon-began-an-ambitious-programme-of-civil-reform-to/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

> [By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December - it numbered fewer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/by-the-time-napoleon-abandoned-his-army-to-its-fate-in-poland/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/in-the-early-hours-of-16-december-1944-the-germans-launched-their/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

> [I was brought up with a whole bunch of cousins in the Wye Valley during the hippy days of the 1970s.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/i-was-brought-up-with-a-whole-bunch-of-cousins-in-the-wye-valley/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

> [History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/history-tells-us-that-a-general-can-move-and-feed-an-army-as/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

> [It is not enough just to get your forces from A to B - you have to keep them fed and watered as they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/it-is-not-enough-just-to-get-your-forces-from-a-to-b-you-have-to-keep/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

> [The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus ending the 'Time of Troubles'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/the-first-romanov-ruler-was-just-16-when-he-was-crowned-tsar-michael/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

> [I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to write about history and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/i-worked-hard-at-my-four-year-m-a-but-got-a-2-1-that-was-a-big/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

> [I passed the 11-plus, but it was decided that I should take the Common Entrance exam to Monmouth School, the nearest independent. I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/i-passed-the-11-plus-but-it-was-decided-that-i-should-take-the-common/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

> [When I was six or seven, we went to the nearest English primary school, St Weonards, about seven miles away. The teaching was good,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-david/when-i-was-six-or-seven-we-went-to-the-nearest-english-primary-school/)

[Saul David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-david/)

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