Zitat des Tages von 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, and this was the start of my beginning to shine as a student.
Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.
No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.
Winter horseshoes are equipped with little spikes that give a horse traction on snow and ice and prevent it from slipping.
History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield.
By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December - it numbered fewer than 10,000 effectives. It was a disaster from which he would never recover.
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 never be fit for public consumption.
From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures and a fully functioning internal market. That achievement alone makes him one of the giants of history.
There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill, near Monmouth, which was owned by my grandparents. They lived in the big house, but my dad had five brothers and a sister, and they all lived in various houses scattered on the hill.
Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.
