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At school, there were more Davids than any other name: more than 20 of us cousins out of 40 pupils. When my older cousins moved on, the school had to close.
- Saul David
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I passed the 11-plus, but it was decided that I should take the Common Entrance exam to Monmouth School, the nearest independent. I was never entirely comfortable there, as they didn't have girls, and they played rugby instead of football.
- Saul David
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Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the previous 12 Romanov rulers were also murdered, it is easy to regard Russia's imperial dynasty as cursed.
- Saul David
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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.
- Saul David
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Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.
- Saul David
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We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a way into reading history proper.
- Saul David
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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.
- Saul David
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I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to write about history and thought I needed a First.
- Saul David
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No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.
- Saul David
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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.
- Saul David
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Even a moderniser like Alexander II - who emancipated the serfs in 1861 - had no intention of devolving real power.
- Saul David
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Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.
- Saul David
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By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than 50 million shells a year.
- Saul David
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I was brought up with a whole bunch of cousins in the Wye Valley during the hippy days of the 1970s.
- Saul David
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The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.
- Saul David
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