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
By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December - it… — 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… — Saul David Copy Share Image
My great-great-grandfather, who made his money in the jute trade, had at one time 600 houses in London, and within three generations,… — 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
