Military History Club Podcast

MHC founder Saul David talks to Katja Hoyer about her new book 'Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe'

MHC founder Saul David talks to James Holland about his new book  The Visionaries: The Making of the Post-World War II Order in the West

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.