The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid
Building on the success of various Commando Raids during 1941, Headquarters Combined Operations moved up the sc...
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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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Building on the success of various Commando Raids during 1941, Headquarters Combined Operations moved up the sc...
Following on from Ligny and Quatre Bras, Part II starts by focusing on the concentration of the Allies on the r...
In 1944 Adolf Hitler decided that his only military option " as Defeat was staring Germany in the Eyes" was to...
On 11 July 1346 Edward III's Anglo/Welsh army landed at St Vaast in the Cotentin Peninsula. Over 12 months this...
In 1944 prior to D Day the allied planners realised it was vital to isolate the Normandy Battlefield from reinf...
This film tells the story of Col Rudder’s 2nd Ranger Bn and their heroic attack on the gun battery at Pointe du...
In 1941 Dr RV Jones realised that the Germans had developed their own radar system that would account for incre...
The most implacable opponents of the British and Canadians fighting in Normandy were the largely teenage soldie...
The Battle of Arnhem, fought in the early autumn of 1944, remains without a doubt the most hotly debated battle...
The Northern most thrust into the wintery Ardennes of General Manteuffel's Fifth Panzer Army fell on the inexpe...
On the 6th June 1944, Maj Howard’s Coy of the OX & Bucks LI carried out one of the greatest and most succes...
On the 16th December 1944 Hitler launched Operation Wacht am Rhein against the largely unsuspecting American co...
This film tells the story of one of the most contentious combats of WW2, the actions of Kamfgruppe Peiper durin...
The Second Battle of Ypres was fought from 21 April–25 May 1915 for control of the strategic Flemish town of Yp...
On the 31st Oct 1914 the Germans were on the cusp of victory at Ypres. troops of the German 30th and 54th Divis...
This programme follows the deployment of the main body of the SAS, the Recces on targets, the raids carried out...
The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliament...
Following on from the story of Hell's Highway, the series reaches the battle to seize the great Bridges over tw...
With the Fifth Panzer Army fighting its way towards the River Meuse, the cross roads town of Bastogne, vital fo...
Following on from Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack, Part III starts just as the great battle reaches its crisis...
In this programe we examine the background to the campaign with a leading American historian before following t...
This film shows the kit and equipment that the 42nd of Foot, The Black Watch wore and used at Waterloo. The Bat...
Jumping in to Drop Zones eight to ten miles from Arnhem on the second day of Operation Market Garden was always...
On the 22nd of August 1914 the recently deployed BEF fought and delayed the German First Army of Von Kluck in a...
Due to the hostile terrain of the Iberian Peninsula Siege Warfare took on an importance here more than anywhere...
With 2 Para isolated at the Arnhem Bridge and both 1 and 4 Para Brigades thwarted in their attempts to fight th...
This film tells the incredible story of Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret. Filmed at Bletchley in collaborati...
The German paratroopers established a reputation in Crete as an elite force. A battalion commander now led a ne...
In 1415 a small English Army consisting mainly of Yeoman English and Welsh archers defeated and destroyed a muc...
At about 1230 on the 8th August 1944 near St Aignan in Normandy Hauptsturmführer Michael Wittmann the top Germa...
69 Infantry Brigade had a highly successful landing and now had to fight its way through German defences to its...
With the Battle of the Aisne grinding to a halt as trench warfare gradually set in, both the German and Allied...
The Battle of Naseby was a decisive engagement of the English Civil War, fought on 14 June 1645 between the mai...
Gold Beach is the story of the highly successful assault by 50th Northumbrian Division and 231 Malta Bde on the...
After the victory at Salamanca Wellington's Army had mixed fortunes and by the the winter of 1812/3 was back in...
This film gives an overview of Napoleons return to France in 1815 before covering in detail the Battles of Lign...