Tim Saunders
Author battlefield guide and full time military historian, Tim Saunders was Educated at Clayesmore School and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He served as an officer in the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment for thirty years and has a life long interest in military history. As an officer cadet, he undertook his first battlefield tour of Normandy on a bicycle at the age of eighteen, during leave from Sandhurst, where he was one of a generation of officers who studied under Professor Richard Holmes. Since then his service, including the Falklands, Northern Ireland, the Gulf and the Balkans, has provided him with the opportunity to visit many less well known battlefields around the world. Since leaving the Army Tim has appeared on TV in programmes as diverse as Channel 4's Time Team, Battlefield Detectives, the word programme Balderdash and Piffle' and most recently the Lost Evidence series for the History Channel. Tim is also an author with over 10 military history titles to his name. As a battlefield guide Tim is an expert on World Wars 1 and 2 and has conducted tours at all levels from private, through schools to Amilitary units and Headquarters. Tim is a badged member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides. Tim is a director of Battlefield History TV and is it's Creative Director responible for all direction and editing.
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2012
SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways
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The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812
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Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches
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Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach
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The 3rd Division was in the van of the D Day assault force. Their task was to break through Hitler's Atlantic Wall on a stretch of Normandy beach code...
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The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1
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This film gives an overview of Napoleons return to France in 1815 before covering in detail the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras. Filmed on the Battle...
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Mons 1914
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On the 22nd of August 1914 the recently deployed BEF fought and delayed the German First Army of Von Kluck in around the industrial coal mining town o...
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Le Cateau
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As Gen Smith-Dorrien’s II Corps retreated from Mons, along with rest of the BEF, they were closely pursued by Von Kluck’s Army. On reaching Le Cateau...
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100 Years War: Agincourt 1415
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Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret
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Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne
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In this programe we examine the background to the campaign with a leading American historian before following the advance of one of Hitler's most succ...
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95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna
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The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD
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100 Years War: Crecy 1346
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100 Years War: Crecy 1346
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100 Years War: Poitiers 1356
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First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea
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Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge
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Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc
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The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger
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Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne
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The Waterloo Collection: Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack
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Following on from Ligny and Quatre Bras, Part II starts by focusing on the concentration of the Allies on the ridge of Mont St Jean and the plans of t...
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Cavalry Charge: La Haie Sainte & Plancenoit - The French and Prussian Attacks
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Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack
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2012
Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting
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2010
Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace
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Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne
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Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods
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Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1
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Battles of the Marne & the Aisne
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While the Allies were nearing panic as the Germans approached Paris, Marshal Foch quickly realised the German intent and that the Schlieffen plan was...
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2013
Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead
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69 Infantry Brigade had a highly successful landing and now had to fight its way through German defences to its objectives eight miles away. It was he...
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The Race to the Sea - 1914
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Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper
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Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith
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Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble
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in 1944 when the Germans launched their last major offensive of the war they had to compensate for their lack of aircraft, manpower and armour. They d...
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2009
The 1066 Hastings Campaign
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The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is with out a doubt one of the most significant events in English history. In the aftermath of the battle, King Harold'...
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2012
12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division
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2012
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SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket
2012
Salamanca
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The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse
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The Battle of Naseby 1645
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The Battle of Naseby 1645
2012
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter
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With 2 Para isolated at the Arnhem Bridge and both 1 and 4 Para Brigades thwarted in their attempts to fight their way into Arnhem and falling back, w...
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Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter
2015
The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid
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Building on the success of various Commando Raids during 1941, Headquarters Combined Operations moved up the scale of size and complexity by electing...
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The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid
2012
Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen
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2014
95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees
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After the victory at Salamanca Wellington's Army had mixed fortunes and by the the winter of 1812/3 was back in Portugal. Wellington took advantage of...
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The Charge That Saved the Empire: Geluveldt 1914
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On the 31st Oct 1914 the Germans were on the cusp of victory at Ypres. troops of the German 30th and 54th Divisions had broken the line at Geluveldt...
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