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Tim Saunders

Tim Saunders

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Biography

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.

Known For

SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways

SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways

2012

Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches

Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches

2013

The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812

The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812

2015

Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach

Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach

2012

The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1

The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1

2011

Mons 1914

Mons 1914

2014

Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne

Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne

2013

Le Cateau

Le Cateau

2014

100 Years War: Agincourt 1415

100 Years War: Agincourt 1415

2013

Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret

Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret

2014

95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna

95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna

2015

The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD

The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD

2009

First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea

First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea

2015

Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc

Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc

2014

The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger

The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger

2015

Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge

Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge

2010

100 Years War: Crecy 1346

100 Years War: Crecy 1346

2013

100 Years War: Poitiers 1356

100 Years War: Poitiers 1356

2015

Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne

Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne

2013

Cavalry Charge: La Haie Sainte & Plancenoit - The French and Prussian Attacks

Cavalry Charge: La Haie Sainte & Plancenoit - The French and Prussian Attacks

2011

The Waterloo Collection: Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack

The Waterloo Collection: Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack

Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack

Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack

2015

Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting

Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting

2012

Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace

Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace

2010

Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods

Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods

2012

Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne

Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne

2015

Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1

Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1

Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4

Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4

The 42nd of Foot - Black Watch - Dress and Equipment at Waterloo

The 42nd of Foot - Black Watch - Dress and Equipment at Waterloo

Néry and the Retreat from Mons

Néry and the Retreat from Mons

2014

Battles of the Marne & the Aisne

Battles of the Marne & the Aisne

2015

The Schlieffen Plan

The Schlieffen Plan

2015

Siege Warfare 1812: Ciudad Rodrigo & Badajoz - The Keys to Spain

Siege Warfare 1812: Ciudad Rodrigo & Badajoz - The Keys to Spain

Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead

Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead

2013

The Race to the Sea - 1914

The Race to the Sea - 1914

1914

Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith

Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith

2015

Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper

Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper

2016

Battle of the Bulge: An Intelligence Failure?

Battle of the Bulge: An Intelligence Failure?

Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble

Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble

Battle of the Bulge: German Field Artillery

Battle of the Bulge: German Field Artillery

SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour

SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour

2012

The 1066 Hastings Campaign

The 1066 Hastings Campaign

2009

SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket

SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket

12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division

12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division

2012

Salamanca

Salamanca

2012

The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse

The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse

The Background and Outbreak of the English Civil War

The Background and Outbreak of the English Civil War

The Battle of Naseby 1645

The Battle of Naseby 1645

Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter

Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter

2012

The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid

The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid

2015

Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen

Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen

2012

95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees

95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees

2014

The Charge That Saved the Empire:  Geluveldt 1914

The Charge That Saved the Empire: Geluveldt 1914