Battlefield detectives - David Wason

Seven of history's greatest battles are given the Battlefield Detectives treatment in this fantastic companion to the TV series. David Wason brings the essential questions of each investigation to life.

Was Gallipoli lost before the Allies even got there? Was the defeat of the Spanish Armada actually more of a draw? Was Custer's last stand really that heroic? And did the v-sign really originate at Agincourt?

The answers to these and dozens of other dramatic historical questions are dug up, dusted off and laid out for you in Battlefield Detectives.

David Wason has been a television documentary producer for many years. He was producer of the award-winning Disappearing World, and Barbarians: Secrets of the Dark Ages for Channel 4 in the UK.

He was the first outsider allowed to film in Albania just as the communist government there was collapsing.

Born in Aberdeen, he lives in Derbyshire's HIgh Peak.