BONNY LUNCH WITH DR SAUL DAVID
Wednesday 18th September at 12.30 | £70*
*Includes one glass Prosecco and half bottle Wine
Our next Bonny Lunch is on Wednesday 18th September at 12:30 for 13:00. Our speaker is the celebrated military historian, Saul David. Saul will, fittingly for the date, be speaking to us on the Arnhem Campaign 17 to 26 September 1944. To coincide with the 80th anniversary of D-Day and Arnhem, Saul has very recently published “Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War”.
A recent Sunday Times review states: “Sky Warriors is an accomplished act of storytelling; authoritative, far-reaching and deeply moving. Building the narrative from the ground-up, Saul David draws on multiple archives, published memoirs, unpublished diaries and letters, and interviews with participants.
The end result is a dramatic narrative of the airborne forces’ recruitment, training and wartime exploits.” He is bringing a few books with him and will be happy to do a signing session after lunch.
Saul has researched and written on British military history in the 19th and 20th centuries. He has won various awards for past books, his previous before Sky Warriors being “Devil Dogs: First In, Last Out – King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan”. He frequently appears on television as a presenter and commentator in documentaries relating to his areas of expertise. He has also written 3 historical novels and has been favourably compared to Bernard Cornwell, author of the Sharpe novels.
Saul is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham, where he was previously Professor of Military History.
