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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 t…
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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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2016
Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper
Movie Presenter
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2015
Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith
Movie Presenter
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2015
100 Years War: Poitiers 1356
Movie Presenter
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2015
The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid
Movie Presenter & Director
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2015
Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack
Movie Presenter
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2015
The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812
Movie Presenter and Writer
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2015
95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna
Movie Presenter
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2015
Battles of the Marne & the Aisne
Movie Presenter
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2015
The Schlieffen Plan
Movie Presenter
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2015
First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea
Movie Presenter and Director
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2015
The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger
Movie Presenter
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2015
Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne
Movie Presenter
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2014
95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees
Movie Presenter
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2014
Néry and the Retreat from Mons
Movie Presenter
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2014
Le Cateau
Movie Presenter and Director
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2014
Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret
Movie Presenter & Director
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2014
Mons 1914
Movie Presenter and Director
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2014
Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc
Movie Presenter and Director
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2013
Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead
Movie Presenter
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2013
Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne
Movie Presenter
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2013
Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne
Movie Himself - Presenter
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2013
100 Years War: Agincourt 1415
Movie Presenter
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2013
100 Years War: Crecy 1346
Movie Presenter
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2013
Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches
Movie Presenter
- 2012
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2012
Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen
Movie Presenter
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2012
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods
Movie Director and Presenter
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2012
Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting
Movie Presenter
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2012
Salamanca
Movie Presenter
- 2012
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2012
SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour
Movie Presenter
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2012
Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach
Movie Presenter
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2012
12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division
Movie Presenter
- 2011
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2011
The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1
Movie Presenter
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2010
Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge
Movie Presenter
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2010
Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace
Movie Presenter
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2009
The 1066 Hastings Campaign
Movie Presenter
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2009
The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD
Movie Himself - Presenter and Writer
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1914
The Race to the Sea - 1914
Movie Presenter
