Dr. Simon Trew

Dr. Simon Trew has taught for over 25 years in the War Studies Department at The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has written or edited many books, among them the 14-volume ‘Battle Zone Normandy’ series of battlefield tour guides (2004) and ‘D-Day and the Battle of Normandy: a Photographic History’ (2012). He has appeared in more than 50 television historical documentaries and live programmes, among them BBC commemorative anniversary broadcasts from Normandy. In 2009 he was nominated for a prestigious ‘Emmy’ award for his research in support of a BBC documentary about the American D-Day landings at Omaha Beach.