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 1944 Normandy 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; reprinted by 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 Publishing Ltd., 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 (Sutton Publishing 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) army.mod.uk/sandhurst 1 Crown Copyright 2012

Simon Trew (Ed.), Stephen Badsey and Tim Bean, Battle Zone Normandy: Omaha Beach (Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, 2004; reprinted by the History Press, Stroud, 2011) Simon Trew (Ed.) and Stephen Badsey, Battle Zone Normandy: Utah Beach (Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, 2004) Simon Trew (Ed.) and George Forty, Battle Zone Normandy: Villers-Bocage (Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, 2004) Simon Trew (Ed.) and R. P. W. Havers, Battle Zone Normandy: Battle for Cherbourg (Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, 2004) Simon Trew (Ed.) and Lloyd Clark, Battle Zone Normandy: Operation Epsom (Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, 2004) Simon Trew (Ed.) and Christopher Pugsley, Battle Zone Normandy: Operation Cobra (Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, 2004) Simon Trew (Ed.) and Stephen Hart, Battle Zone Normandy: Road to Falaise (Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, 2004) Simon Trew (Ed.) and Paul Latawski, Battle Zone Normandy: Falaise Pocket (Sutton Publishing Ltd., 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, in Stephen Badsey and Paul Latawski, Britain, NATO and the Lessons of the Balkan Conflicts 19911999 (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.), The Hutchinson 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.), The Hutchinson 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 June 1944, CD-ROM, British Defence Film Library, 2002 Various short articles and book reviews in The Wish Stream (the journal of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst), The Sandhurst Foundation Journal, Global War Studies, Small Wars and Insurgencies, History Today and other journals and magazines, 1993-2012 army.mod.uk/sandhurst 2 Crown Copyright 2012

Media Experience
Consultant, Last Heroes of D-Day, BBC-1 TV documentary (two programmes), due for broadcast in April 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 in Europe (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 65th anniversary 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 edited version of this documentary was broadcast for the Smithsonian Channel in the USA in 2009 as DDay: The True Story of Omaha Beach (see also Other information below) On-screen interviewee, BBC News 24 all-day live coverage of the 60th anniversary commemorations 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 anniversary commemorations of the end of World War II (four programmes broadcast from the living museum in 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-Day commemorations, June 2004 (from various sites in Normandy) Consultant & on-screen interviewee, BBC-1 live daily broadcasts during the 60th anniversary commemorations 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 topics for 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; The Battle 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/battlefield studies/staff rides for military and civilian audiences, including: Joint Services Command and Staff College 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 particular reference 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 US battle 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 Texas A&M University in their attempts to map and preserve the Pointe du Hoc battle site in Normandy over 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, for D-Day: The True Story of 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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