About this episode

Saul David interviews Eleo Gordon about her 40-year career in publishing military historians.

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.

People in this episode

Host: Saul David

Guest: Eleo Gordon

Topics covered

• military history
• publishing
• interviews
• biography
• literature

Keywords

• military historians
• Penguin publishing
• Saul David
• Eleo Gordon
• interview

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