Military History Club Podcast

MHC founder Saul David talks to Antonia Senior about her new book Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Union (Book of the Month for April and the subject of May’s lecture). 

MHC founder Saul David talks to Paul O’Keeffe about his new book Trafalgar: Battle and Aftermath. 

MHC founder Saul David talks to bestselling and prizewinning war historian Sir Antony Beevor about his life and work, and his new book Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs

MHC founder Saul David talks to Medieval historian Helen Carr about her life and work, including her time as a researcher on BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’, and her two critically acclaimed and bestselling histories The Red Prince and Sceptred Isle. 

MHC founder Saul David speaks to Professor Gary Sheffield, the celebrated historian, about his life and work, his forthcoming publication Civilian Armies: British and Dominion Soldiers’ Experience in Two World Wars, and also an exciting collaboration they have planned for the club in 2026.

MHC founder Saul David talks to Eleo Gordon about her extraordinary 40 year career at Penguin publishing some of Britain's best military historians, including Sir Antony Beevor, Lyn MacDonald, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, Geoff Wellum and, of course, Saul himself.

MHC founder Saul David talks to Hugh Sebag-Montefiore about his excellent new book Battle of the Arctic: The Maritime Epic of World War Two. 

Military History Club founder Saul David talks to Roger Moorhouse about his new book Wolfpack: Inside Hitler's U-Boat War.

MHC founder Saul David talks to Rob Gallimore, an ex-major in the Welsh Guards, about his service in Afghanistan, and the three ‘sensations’ that soldiers typically feel in combat.

MHC founder Saul David talks to Iain MacGregor about his new book The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use It. 

MHC founder Saul David talks to Sir Max Hastings about his new book 'Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle'

MHC founder Saul David talks to Jack Bowsher about his new book 'Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945'

MHC founder Saul David talks to James Holland and Al Murray about their new book Victory ’45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders. 

MHC founder Saul David talks to Professor Richard Overy about his new book Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan, the club's Book of the Month for March 2025.

MHC founder Saul David talks to historian Gordon Corrigan about the Duke of Wellington, one of Britain's finest generals and the subject of Gordon's 2001 biography, Wellington: A Military Life. 

MHC founder Saul David talks to historian and author Adam LeBor about his new book The Last Days of Budapest: Spies, Nazis, Rescuers and Resistance, 1940-1945 (January’s Book of the Month).  

MHC founder Saul David talks to Roger Moorhouse about their forthcoming books: Wolfpack: Hitler's U-boat War 1939-1945 (RM) and Tunisgrad: Destroying the Axis, 1942-43 (SD).

MHC founder Saul David talks to James Fenelon about his new book 'Four Hours of Fury: The Untold Story of World War II"s Largest Airborne Operation and the Final Push into Nazi Germany

MHC founder Saul David talks to James Holland about his new book Cassino '44: Five months of hell in Italy

MHC founder Saul David talks to Al Murray about his new book Arnhem: Black Tuesday

MHC founder Saul David talks to Patrick Bishop about his brilliant new book Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory.

MHC founder Saul David talks to Nick Hewitt about his new book Normandy: The Sailors' Story.

MHC founder Saul David talks to Sir Max Hastings about his new book Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar.

MHC founder Saul David talks to Evan Mawdsley about his new book Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory, which covers the lead up to and course of the seminal Battle of the Philippine Sea in 1944.

MHC founder Saul David talks to Rob Lyman about Slim: Master of War,  his classic biography of one of Britain's finest commanders, Field Marshal Viscount 'Bill' Slim. 

To coincide with the release of the new Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg mini-series Masters of the Air, Patrick Bishop speaks to MHC founder Saul David about Bomber Boys, his classic and bestselling account of the British airmen who flew bombing raids over occupied Europe in World War II. 

Jonathan (Lord) Sumption KC, former Justice on the Supreme Court, talks to MHC founder Saul David about Triumph and Illusion, the fifth and final volume of his monumental history of the Hundred Years War.

Bestselling historian and podcaster James Holland speaks to MHC founder Saul David about his new book The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943.: 

Andrew (Lord) Roberts spoke to MHC founder Saul David about his new book Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine that he co-authored with General David Petraeus.

MHC founder Saul David talks to Larisa Brown, The Times’ defence editor, about her deeply researched and moving new book The Gardener of Lashkar Gah: The Afghans who risked everything to fight the Taliban. 

Saul David talks to Matthew Parker about his new book One Fine Day: 29 September 1923 - Britain's Empire on the Brink.

Saul David talks to Roger Moorhouse about his new book The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation.

Saul David talks to Robert Sackville-West about his new book The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War.

Tom Whipple, Science Editor for The Times, talks to Saul about his new history of the science war, The Battle of the Beams: The Secret Science That Turned the Tide of World War Two.

Bestselling German-British historian Katja Hoyer talks to Saul about her new critically-acclaimed history of East Germany, Beyond the Wall.

TV director Sarah Jobling talks to Saul about the film 'Rome's Forgotten War' that she is about to make for the Content Club.

Military History Club founder Saul David talks to Norman S. Poser about his new book 'From the Battlefield to the Stage: The Many Lives of General John Burgoyne'

MHC founder Saul David talks to Robert Lyman about his new book 'A War of Empires'

MHC founder Saul David talks to Ben Macintyre about his new bestseller 'Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle'

MHC founder Saul David talks to Huw J. Davies about his new book 'The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War'

MHC founder Saul David talks to Damien Lewis about his new book 'SAS: Brothers in Arms'

MHC founder Saul David talks to Max Hastings about his timely new book 'Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962'

MHC founder Saul David talks to Iain Will Iredale about his bestselling new book 'The Pathfinders: The Elite RAF Force that Turned the Tide of WWII'

MHC founder Saul David talks to Iain MacGregor about his new book 'The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Centre of WWII's Greatest Battle'

MHC founder Saul David talks to Gavin Mortimer about his controversial new biography 'David Stirling: The Phoney Major – The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS'

MHC founder Saul David talks to bestselling and prize-winning historian Sir Antony Beevor about his latest book 'Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921'

MHC founder Saul David talks to prize-winning historian Jessie Childs about her new book 'The Siege of Loyalty House', set during the English Civil War of 1643-46.

Club founder Saul David talks to General Sir Mike Jackson, the British Army's former chief of General Staff, about his long relationship with Russia and the Russians, his careful handling of Russian troops at Pristina Airport in Kosovo in 1999 (when Jackson was commanding KFOR), and Russia's recent invasion of Ukraine.

Richard B. Frank is an American lawyer and historian. He is the author of a number of critically-acclaimed books, including Guadalcanal (1990), Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire and, most recently, Tower of Skulls (2020), the first instalment of a 3-volume history of the Asia-Pacific War. He served a tour of duty in Vietnam as an aerofile platoon leader in the 101st Airborne Division.