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.

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

Continuing the story of 'Operation Bulbasket' the BHTV team follow the development of the attacks on...

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Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches
Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches

Gold Beach is the story of the highly successful assault by 50th Northumbrian Division and 231 Malta...

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The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812
The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812

95th Rifles 1809 to Salamanca is the second DVD in 95th Rifles trilogy of films and part of The Peni...

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Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach
Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach

The 3rd Division was in the van of the D Day assault force. Their task was to break through Hitler's...

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The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1
The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1

This film gives an overview of Napoleons return to France in 1815 before covering in detail the Batt...

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Mons 1914
Mons 1914

On the 22nd of August 1914 the recently deployed BEF fought and delayed the German First Army of Von...

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

In this programe we examine the background to the campaign with a leading American historian before ...

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Le Cateau
Le Cateau

As Gen Smith-Dorrien’s II Corps retreated from Mons, along with rest of the BEF, they were closely p...

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100 Years War: Agincourt 1415
100 Years War: Agincourt 1415

In 1415 a small English Army consisting mainly of Yeoman English and Welsh archers defeated and dest...

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Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret
Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret

This film tells the incredible story of Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret. Filmed at Bletchley in ...

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95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna
95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna

95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna is a film in The Peninsular Collection from BHTV and Pen and Sword Digit...

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The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD
The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD

The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD is the second DVD in this sensational new series, The Dark Ages...

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First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea
First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea

With the Battle of the Aisne grinding to a halt as trench warfare gradually set in, both the German ...

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Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc
Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc

This film tells the story of Col Rudder’s 2nd Ranger Bn and their heroic attack on the gun battery a...

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The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger
The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger

The German paratroopers established a reputation in Crete as an elite force. A battalion commander n...

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Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge
Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge

On the 6th June 1944, Maj Howard’s Coy of the OX & Bucks LI carried out one of the greatest and ...

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100 Years War: Crecy 1346
100 Years War: Crecy 1346

On 11 July 1346 Edward III's Anglo/Welsh army landed at St Vaast in the Cotentin Peninsula. Over 12 ...

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100 Years War: Poitiers 1356
100 Years War: Poitiers 1356

Ten Years after the English victory in Crecy an Anglo/Gascon Army led by Edward of Woodstock, The Pr...

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Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne
Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne

The Overlord plan called for the use of airborne troops to secure the flanks of the D Day landing an...

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

Following on from Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack, Part III starts just as the great battle reaches ...

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

Following on from Ligny and Quatre Bras, Part II starts by focusing on the concentration of the Alli...

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Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack
Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack

The Second Battle of Ypres was fought from 21 April–25 May 1915 for control of the strategic Flemis...

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Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting
Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting

In 1941 Dr RV Jones realised that the Germans had developed their own radar system that would accoun...

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Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace
Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace

At about 1230 on the 8th August 1944 near St Aignan in Normandy Hauptsturmführer Michael Wittmann th...

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Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods

Jumping in to Drop Zones eight to ten miles from Arnhem on the second day of Operation Market Garden...

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Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne
Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne

With the Fifth Panzer Army fighting its way towards the River Meuse, the cross roads town of Bastogn...

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Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1

The Battle of Arnhem, fought in the early autumn of 1944, remains without a doubt the most hotly deb...

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Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4
Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4

This final part takes us through the dramatic events when Wellington’s Anglo-Dutch Army aided by Blu...

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

This film shows the kit and equipment that the 42nd of Foot, The Black Watch wore and used at Waterl...

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Néry and the Retreat from Mons
Néry and the Retreat from Mons

Following the Battles of Mons and Le Cateau the already near exhausted British Expeditionary Force, ...

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Battles of the Marne & the Aisne
Battles of the Marne & the Aisne

While the Allies were nearing panic as the Germans approached Paris, Marshal Foch quickly realised t...

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The Schlieffen Plan
The Schlieffen Plan

In 1914 the German Attack on France was based on a later iteration of the plan that Von Schlieffen p...

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

Due to the hostile terrain of the Iberian Peninsula Siege Warfare took on an importance here more th...

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Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead
Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead

69 Infantry Brigade had a highly successful landing and now had to fight its way through German defe...

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The Race to the Sea - 1914
The Race to the Sea - 1914

In October 1914 as the Battle of the Aisne drew to a close both the Allies and the Germans started t...

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Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith
Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith

The Northern most thrust into the wintery Ardennes of General Manteuffel's Fifth Panzer Army fell o...

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Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper
Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper

This film tells the story of one of the most contentious combats of WW2, the actions of Kamfgruppe P...

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Battle of the Bulge: An Intelligence Failure?
Battle of the Bulge: An Intelligence Failure?

On the 16th December 1944 Hitler launched Operation Wacht am Rhein against the largely unsuspecting ...

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Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble
Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble

In 1944 Adolf Hitler decided that his only military option " as Defeat was staring Germany in the Ey...

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Battle of the Bulge: German Field Artillery
Battle of the Bulge: German Field Artillery

in 1944 when the Germans launched their last major offensive of the war they had to compensate for t...

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SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour
SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour

In 1944 prior to D Day the allied planners realised it was vital to isolate the Normandy Battlefield...

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The 1066 Hastings Campaign
The 1066 Hastings Campaign

The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is with out a doubt one of the most significant events in English his...

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SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket
SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket

This programme follows the deployment of the main body of the SAS, the Recces on targets, the raids ...

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12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division
12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division

The most implacable opponents of the British and Canadians fighting in Normandy were the largely tee...

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Salamanca
Salamanca

On 22nd July 1812 Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese Army with their Spanish allies won a momentous victo...

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The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse
The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse

This film tells the story of the 8th and 9th Devon's on the 1st July 1916, both served in 20 Bde of ...

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The Background and Outbreak of the English Civil War
The Background and Outbreak of the English Civil War

The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between...

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The Battle of Naseby 1645
The Battle of Naseby 1645

The Battle of Naseby was a decisive engagement of the English Civil War, fought on 14 June 1645 betw...

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Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter

With 2 Para isolated at the Arnhem Bridge and both 1 and 4 Para Brigades thwarted in their attempts ...

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The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid
The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid

Building on the success of various Commando Raids during 1941, Headquarters Combined Operations move...

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Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen
Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen

Following on from the story of Hell's Highway, the series reaches the battle to seize the great Brid...

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95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees
95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees

After the victory at Salamanca Wellington's Army had mixed fortunes and by the the winter of 1812/3 ...

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The Charge That Saved the Empire:  Geluveldt 1914
The Charge That Saved the Empire: Geluveldt 1914

On the 31st Oct 1914 the Germans were on the cusp of victory at Ypres. troops of the German 30th and...

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