Mike Peters
Mike Peters was an Army Air Corps Officer who has been leading battlefield tours for more than twenty years. He joined the Army in 1980 at the age of 16 as a Junior Leader and progressed through a busy career to become a Regimental Sergeant Major. He was commissioned from the ranks in the year 2000. Mike's final job was as a Major working as a staff officer in the Attack Helicopter Force. Mike has extensive operational experience in Northern Ireland, Macedonia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq where he served during both Gulf wars. He has recently returned from a tour in Afghanistan. This experience and knowledge of tactics, give him a soldier's eye for ground and the implications of terrain on the weapon systems of your chosen period. He has a passion for military history which he combines with his own military experiences when working as a battlefield guide. He strives to place his audience on the field of battle with enough insight to understand the realities of battle, while helping them to imagine what the soldiers of the day saw and felt. This focus allows the listener to look at the battle from the inside out; this is of course every battlefield guides aim. The campaigns of Wellington are Mike's favorite subject area although he is equally at home working with groups on the battlefields of the Great War. Most recently he has begun to specialize in leading Australian and New Zealand groups over the ANZAC battlefields of Flanders. Intimate knowledge of modern Air Assault operations also enables Mike to focus on the detail of the parachute and glider operations of World War Two. He regularly leads tours visiting the Landing Zones of Sicily, Normandy, Arnhem and the Rhine crossing. Mike enjoys touring with school groups or adults and is regularly to be found on the continent working for Anglia Tours or leading battlefield studies with military groups. He regularly contributes articles to military journals and magazines. Mike is also a published author – he wrote 'Glider Pilots at Arnhem' – a book on the exploits of The Glider Pilot Regiment during Operation Market Garden. He has also worked as a presenter with Battlefield History TV, being involved in films on Pegasus Bridge, The Glider Pilot Regiment, Operation Market Garden and the Waterloo campaign. His latest book is on the British Airborne landings on Sicily. Mike was awarded his guild badge by the late Richard Holmes in November 2005 and was Vice Chairman of the guild from 2010-2011. Mike was appointed Guild Chairman in late 2011.
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2015
The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812
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95th Rifles 1809 to Salamanca is the second DVD in 95th Rifles trilogy of films and part of The Peninsular Collection from BHTV . The DVD explores the...
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The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812
2011
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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The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1
2014
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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2014
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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2013
100 Years War: Agincourt 1415
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In 1415 a small English Army consisting mainly of Yeoman English and Welsh archers defeated and destroyed a much larger French army consisting mainly...
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100 Years War: Agincourt 1415
2013
100 Years War: Crecy 1346
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100 Years War: Crecy 1346
2015
First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea
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With the Battle of the Aisne grinding to a halt as trench warfare gradually set in, both the German and Allied commanders realised the dominance of th...
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First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea
2010
Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge
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On the 6th June 1944, Maj Howard’s Coy of the OX & Bucks LI carried out one of the greatest and most successful small unit actions in history in c...
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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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The Waterloo Collection: Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack
2011
Cavalry Charge: La Haie Sainte & Plancenoit - The French and Prussian Attacks
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Following on from Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack, Part III starts just as the great battle reaches its crisis point. Marshal Ney launched thousands o...
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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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Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack
2012
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods
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Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1
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Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1
Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4
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This final part takes us through the dramatic events when Wellington’s Anglo-Dutch Army aided by Blucher’s Prussians defeat Napoleon. The French army...
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Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4
95th Rifles - Dress and Equipment
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Néry and the Retreat from Mons
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Néry and the Retreat from Mons
2015
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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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
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Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen
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