Tim Saunders

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Tim Saunders

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

  • Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting

    Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting

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

    Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter

  • Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne

    Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne

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

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

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

    Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches

  • Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen

    Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen

  • 100 Years War: Poitiers 1356

    100 Years War: Poitiers 1356

  • Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack

    Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack

  • Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc

    Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc

  • Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper

    Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper

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

    SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour

  • SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket

    SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket

  • The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD

    The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD

  • 100 Years War: Crecy 1346

    100 Years War: Crecy 1346

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

    Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead

  • 12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division

    12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division

  • Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith

    Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith

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

    The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid

  • Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret

    Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret

  • The Background and Outbreak of the English Civil War

    The Background and Outbreak of the English Civil War

  • Battle of the Bulge: German Field Artillery

    Battle of the Bulge: German Field Artillery

  • Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace

    Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace

  • Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4

    Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4

  • Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1

    Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1

  • 100 Years War: Agincourt 1415

    100 Years War: Agincourt 1415

  • The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger

    The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger

  • Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble

    Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble

  • Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach

    Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach

  • Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods

    Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods

  • Battles of the Marne & the Aisne

    Battles of the Marne & the Aisne

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

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

  • The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812

    The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812

  • 95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees

    95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees

  • Battle of the Bulge: An Intelligence Failure?

    Battle of the Bulge: An Intelligence Failure?

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • The Charge That Saved the Empire: Geluveldt 1914

    The Charge That Saved the Empire: Geluveldt 1914

  • Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne

    Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne

  • The Schlieffen Plan

    The Schlieffen Plan

  • First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea

    First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea

  • The Race to the Sea - 1914

    The Race to the Sea - 1914

  • Le Cateau

    Le Cateau

  • Néry and the Retreat from Mons

    Néry and the Retreat from Mons

  • Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge

    Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge

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

    The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1

  • The Battle of Naseby 1645

    The Battle of Naseby 1645

  • Mons 1914

    Mons 1914

  • The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse

    The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse

  • The 1066 Hastings Campaign

    The 1066 Hastings Campaign

  • 95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna

    95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna

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

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

  • Salamanca

    Salamanca