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May 17, 2024 | 
thejc.com | Saul David |Robert Verkaik |Colin Shindler
Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War by Saul David William Collins, £25 The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII'S Greatest Betrayal and the Moment that Changed History Forever by Robert Verkaik Headline Welbeck, £20 Reviewed by Colin Shindler Eighty years ago, thousands of Allied paratroopers jumped out of aircraft and gliders into the Arnhem region on the Dutch-German border.
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May 1, 2024 | 
msn.com | Saul David
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May 1, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Saul David
40mm guns firing aboard USS Hornet, part of Task Force 58 Credit: Alamy At a critical moment during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, the order was given for the blacked-out US aircraft carriers to turn on their lights to assist American pilots returning to their ships in the dark.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Saul David
Just imagine it: two lines of warships, seven miles long, anchored between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight... the greatest display of sea power the world has ever seen. At the naval review staged off Spithead on the Solent for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the Royal Navy mustered 170 ships, including 21 battleships and 56 cruisers. But the Queen was Victoria, not Elizabeth, and the year was 1897.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Saul David
For those who imagined that state-on-state warfare in Europe was a thing of the past, Russia’s disastrous full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 must have been quite a shock. Yet in 1945, after the worst global conflict in history, the founding of the United Nations raised hopes that the “scourge of war” might be over. “The universal cry of ‘never again’ applied as much to the practice of invading countries,” write the authors, “as to the monstrous crimes of the Nazi era.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
aspectsofhistory.com | Saul David
First in, Last OutOn August 12, 1942, five days after the 19,000-strong 1st Marine Division had landed unopposed on Guadalcanal in the British Solomon Islands, the first American ground offensive of the war, Sergeant Jim McEnery came upon the aftermath of a slaughter of US Marines who had walked blindly into an ambush. Not satisfied with mere killing, the Japanese had hacked the Americans to pieces. Random body parts littered the river bank.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
thetimes.co.uk | Saul David
On August 26, 2021, as thousands of Afghans thronged the perimeter of Kabul airport desperate to escape the vengeance of the Taliban, an Isis suicide-bomber walked into the crowd and detonated his explosive vest. “Some were flung by the blast into a sewage ditch,” Larisa Brown writes. “One woman, her dress soaked in a deep red, was holding her dead child while screaming up at the sky.”More than 180 people, including 13 American servicemen, were killed in the blast and many more were injured.
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Jun 29, 2023 | 
aspectsofhistory.com | Justin Doherty |Saul David
CVHF 2023: Day 3 The V-Bombers – Norman Bonner & Ed Jarron with James Holland Britain And The Nuclear Threat – Julie McDowall The Pacific War 1941-45 – Saul David & Michael Neiberg The Wolf-Girl, The Greeks And The Gods: A Tale Of The Persian Wars – Tom Holland Pax: War And Peace In Rome’s Golden Age – Tom Holland Don McCullin: Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor – Don McCullin with Barnaby Rogerson The Holland brothers rule Chalke Valley, and both their stars have risen in the past couple of...
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May 10, 2023 | 
thetimes.co.uk | Saul David
In December 1942, a lone Wellington bomber was nearing Mainz in Germany when it picked up the faint ping of a radio signal. Noting the frequency, the pilot kept his course. Ten minutes later, the signal was so loud that it overwhelmed the receiver apparatus. It was clearly a German nightfighter using on-board radar to find its prey. As the crew scrambled to transmit their findings to Britain, the first cannon shells tore through the sides of the plane.
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Apr 18, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Saul David
The use of bouncing bombs to destroy the Ruhr dams in 1943 is one of the iconic moments of the Second World War: a tale of British ingenuity and courage that has been the subject of countless books and the 1955 film The Dam Busters. The engineer responsible for the bomb, Barnes Wallis, was portrayed in the film by actor Michael Redgrave as a shy genius at odds with bureaucracy. This, insists Richard Morris, is too simplistic.
