David Snape
David Snape spent almost forty years in various post in state education which included headships in two secondary schools, a chief examiner, a school adviser and as a Local Education Officer. After retirement, he developed his interest in military history by taking two M.A. degrees at Wolverhampton University and in 2017 was awarded the prize as best performing post graduate student in History, Politics and War Studies for a study of the Indian Army in the First World War. He is a regular contributor to a number of military publications including Soldiers of the Queen, the journal of the Victorian Military History Society which awarded him the Howard Browne Medal in 2019 for an Assessment of Kitchener’s reforms of the Indian Army. In 2023 David Snape was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Historical Society.
Books
- The Chameleon and the Fly : The AmaNdebele War of 1893 Author
- A Matter Too Serious to be Overlooked! : The Causes, Course and Results of the AmaNdebele and Mashona Uprisings in 1896 Author
- A Tiger Loose on an Ice Floe : The Ferozepore Brigade on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Author
- The Fire of Venture Was in His Veins : Major Allan Wilson and the Shangani Patrol 1893: Rhodesia's 'Custer's Last Stand' Author
- The Rescue They Called a Raid : The Jameson Raid 1895-96 Author
