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Dr Simon Trew, BA

Appointment: Deputy Head, Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

Contact Details

Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 4PQ

Tel. +44 (0)1276 412388

Principal research interests

The Second World War in Europe, especially the planning and execution of the 1944Normandy Campaign and the war in the Balkans, 1941-5

The history of urban operations

How armies learn

The history of war photography

Principal Publications

BOOKS

Simon Trew, D-Day and the Battle of Normandy: a Photographic History(Haynes Publishing,Sparkford, 2012)

Simon Trew, Battle Zone Normandy: Gold Beach (Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, 2004; reprintedby the History Press, Stroud, 2011)

Simon Trew and Stephen Badsey, Battle Zone Normandy: Battle for Caen (Sutton Publishing Ltd.,Stroud, 2004)

Simon Trew (Ed.) and Lloyd Clark, Battle Zone Normandy: Orne Bridgehead(Sutton PublishingLtd., Stroud, 2004; reprinted by the History Press, Stroud, 2012)

Simon Trew and Nigel de Lee (as Peter Yates), Battle Zone Normandy: Battle for St-Lo (SuttonPublishing Ltd., Stroud, 2004)

Simon Trew (Ed.) and Ken Ford, Battle Zone Normandy: Sword Beach (Sutton Publishing Ltd.,Stroud, 2004)

Simon Trew (Ed.) and Ken Ford, Battle Zone Normandy: Juno Beach (Sutton Publishing Ltd.,Stroud, 2004)


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Simon Trew (Ed.), Stephen Badsey and Tim Bean, Battle Zone Normandy: Omaha Beach (SuttonPublishing Ltd., Stroud, 2004; reprinted by the History Press, Stroud, 2011)

Simon Trew (Ed.) and Stephen Badsey, Battle Zone Normandy: Utah Beach (Sutton PublishingLtd., Stroud, 2004)

Simon Trew (Ed.) and George Forty, Battle Zone Normandy: Villers-Bocage (Sutton PublishingLtd., Stroud, 2004)

Simon Trew (Ed.) and R. P. W. Havers, Battle Zone Normandy: Battle for Cherbourg(SuttonPublishing Ltd., Stroud, 2004)

Simon Trew (Ed.) and Lloyd Clark, Battle Zone Normandy: Operation Epsom (Sutton PublishingLtd., Stroud, 2004)

Simon Trew (Ed.) and Christopher Pugsley, Battle Zone Normandy: Operation Cobra (SuttonPublishing Ltd., Stroud, 2004)

Simon Trew (Ed.) and Stephen Hart, Battle Zone Normandy: Road to Falaise (Sutton PublishingLtd., Stroud, 2004)

Simon Trew (Ed.) and Paul Latawski, Battle Zone Normandy: Falaise Pocket(Sutton PublishingLtd., Stroud, 2004; reprinted by the History Press, Stroud, 2012)

Simon Trew and Gary Sheffield (Eds.), 100 Years of Conflict 1900-2000(Sutton Publishing Ltd.,Stroud, 2000)

Simon Trew, Britain, Mihailovi and the Chetniks, 1941-42(Macmillan Press Ltd., Basingstoke,1998)

CHAPTERS/ARTICLES IN EDITED COLLECTIONS

Simon Trew, Yugoslav Quagmires: The Image of the Past and the Fear of Intervention, inStephen Badsey and Paul Latawski, Britain, NATO and the Lessons of the Balkan Conflicts 1991-1999 (Frank Cass, London & New York, 2004), pp.3-13

Simon Trew, New Ideas about Land Warfare, 1919-1939, in Simon Trew and Gary Sheffield(Eds.), 100 Years of Conflict 1900-2000(Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, 2000), pp.103-24

Simon Trew, The Battle for Crete 1941 The Pyrrhic Victory, in Stephen Badsey (Ed.), TheHutchinson Atlas of World War II Battle Plans (Helicon Publishing Ltd., 2000), pp.193-202

Simon Trew, The Battle of Berlin 1945 The Final Battle, in Stephen Badsey (Ed.), TheHutchinson Atlas of World War II Battle Plans (Helicon Publishing Ltd., 2000), pp.249-60

OTHER PUBLISHED WORK

Content author/consultant, Mobile Operations in Normandy: 8th Armoured Brigade 6-12 June1944, CD-ROM, British Defence Film Library, 2002

Various short articles and book reviews in The Wish Stream (the journal of the Royal MilitaryAcademy Sandhurst), The Sandhurst Foundation Journal, Global War Studies, Small Wars andInsurgencies, History Todayand other journals and magazines, 1993-2012


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Media Experience

Consultant, Last Heroes of D-Day, BBC-1 TV documentary (two programmes), due for broadcast inApril 2013

On-screen interviewee, Castle Commando [4 Commando at Dieppe, 1942], BBC Scotland/BBC-2,

2012

On-screen interviewee, True Stories: Saving Private Ryan, Blink Films, 2011

History Channel website, numerous filmed interview contributions on the Second World War inEurope (for general access see http://www.history.co.uk/explore-history/ww2/ ), 2010

On-screen commentator, BBC-1 and BBC-4 live broadcasts/panel discussions during 65thanniversary of D-Day commemorations, from Arromanches, France, June 2009

On-screen interviewee, Ground War: Command and Control, 3SixtyMedia, 2009

Consultant and on-screen interviewee, Timewatch: Bloody Omaha, BBC-2, 2008. An editedversion of this documentary was broadcast for the Smithsonian Channel in the USA in 2009 as D-Day: The True Story of Omaha Beach (see also Other information below)

On-screen interviewee, BBC News 24 all-day live coverage of the 60th anniversarycommemorations of the end of World War II (in studio), 10 July 2005

Consultant and on-screen interviewee, BBC-1 live daily broadcasts during the 60th anniversarycommemorations of the end of World War II (four programmes broadcast from the living museumin St. Jamess Park), July 2005

Commentator, BBC News 24 live coverage of the 60th anniversary of VE Day, broadcast from the

Cenotaph, May 2005

Consultant and on-screen interviewee, Battlefield Detectives: Pointe du Hoc, Granada television,2005

On-screen interviewee, BBC News 24 all-day live coverage of the 60th anniversary of D-Daycommemorations, June 2004 (from various sites in Normandy)

Consultant & on-screen interviewee, BBC-1 live daily broadcasts during the 60th anniversarycommemorations of the D-Day landings (five programmes broadcast from Southwick House &Arromanches), June 2004

On-screen interviewee, The Map-makers: D-Day, Wild Dream Productions, 2003

On-screen interviewee, The Nazis and the Serbs, BBC-2 Leviathan series, 1999

On-screen interviewee, approximately 15-20 pre-recorded documentaries on various military topicsfor Cromwell Productions, 1996-2000 (examples include programmes on: Luftwaffe fighter aircraft;The Battle of Britain; The Battle of the Atlantic; The Battle of the Bulge; The Battle of Berlin; TheBattle of Edgehill; The Battle of Quebec; The Battle of Borodino)


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Battlefield Study expertise

Dr. Trew has extensive experience in planning and delivering battlefield tours/battlefieldstudies/staff rides for military and civilian audiences, including: Joint Services Command and StaffCollege directing staff and students; various British Army division, brigade and unit headquarters;French Army staff college students; RAF personnel; Young Presidents Organisation and others. His

expertise lies mainly in the following areas:

Normandy (1944 campaign): Many sites across the 1944 Normandy battlefields, with particularreference to British and US operations from 6 June to early August 1944 (e.g. Pegasus bridge,Merville battery, Gold Beach, Omaha Beach & Pointe du Hoc, Neuville-au-Plain, numerous USbattle sites around St-L, Hill 192, operations Windsor, Charnwood and Goodwood/Atlantic,Mortain).

He has also visited battlefields and other conflict-related sites in the UK, Ireland, USA, France,Belgium, Czech Republic, Norway and Singapore.

Dr. Trew was one of the main architects of the highly successful RMAS Exercise Normandy

Scholar (battlefield study/leadership and command exercise) and also worked closely with TexasA&M University in their attempts to map and preserve the Pointe du Hoc battle site in Normandyover a period of several years.

Other information

Nominee, The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (the Emmy awards), 2009;nominated for outstanding individual achievement in a craft: research, forD-Day: The True Storyof Omaha Beach (Smithsonian Channel, 2009)

Editorial board member, Global War Studies journal

Member of The Society of Authors

Life member, Friends of the Imperial War Museum

Education

1983-6, University of Keele, Department of International Relations, BA (Hons) First Class,International Relations

1986-92, University of Keele, Department of History, PhD thesis title No Pity Distilled: Britain,Mihailovi and the Chetniks, 1941-2

Languages (apart from English)

A little French, fragments of Serbo-Croatian

[Profile last revised: September 2012]

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