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Tim Saunders

Overview

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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Acting
2016 Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper Actor Presenter N/A
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2015 Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith Actor Presenter N/A
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2015 100 Years War: Poitiers 1356 Actor Presenter N/A
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2015 The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid Actor Presenter & Director N/A
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2015 Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack Actor Presenter N/A
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2015 The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812 Actor Presenter and Writer N/A
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2015 95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna Actor Presenter N/A
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2015 Battles of the Marne & the Aisne Actor Presenter N/A
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2015 The Schlieffen Plan Actor Presenter N/A
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2015 First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea Actor Presenter and Director N/A
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2015 The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger Actor Presenter N/A
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2015 Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne Actor Presenter N/A
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2014 95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees Actor Presenter N/A
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2014 Néry and the Retreat from Mons Actor Presenter N/A
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2014 Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret Actor Presenter & Director N/A
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2014 Le Cateau Actor Presenter and Director N/A
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2014 Mons 1914 Actor Presenter and Director N/A
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2014 Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc Actor Presenter and Director N/A
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2013 Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead Actor Presenter N/A
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2013 Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne Actor Presenter N/A
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2013 Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne Actor Himself - Presenter N/A
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2013 100 Years War: Agincourt 1415 Actor Presenter N/A
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2013 100 Years War: Crecy 1346 Actor Presenter 59
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2013 Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches Actor Presenter N/A
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2012 Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter Actor Presenter N/A
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2012 Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen Actor Presenter N/A
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2012 Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods Actor Director and Presenter N/A
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2012 Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting Actor Presenter N/A
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2012 Salamanca Actor Presenter N/A
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2012 SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways Actor Presenter N/A
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2012 SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour Actor Presenter N/A
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2012 Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach Actor Presenter N/A
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2012 12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division Actor Presenter N/A
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2011 Cavalry Charge: La Haie Sainte & Plancenoit - The French and Prussian Attacks Actor Presenter N/A
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2011 The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1 Actor Presenter N/A
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2010 Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge Actor Presenter 59
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2010 Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace Actor Presenter N/A
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2009 The 1066 Hastings Campaign Actor Presenter N/A
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2009 The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD Actor Himself - Presenter and Writer N/A
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1914 The Race to the Sea - 1914 Actor Presenter N/A
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The 42nd of Foot - Black Watch - Dress and Equipment at Waterloo Actor Director and Editor 59
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Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4 Actor Presenter N/A
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Siege Warfare 1812: Ciudad Rodrigo & Badajoz - The Keys to Spain Actor Presenter N/A
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The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse Actor Presenter N/A
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SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket Actor Director and Presenter N/A
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The Battle of Naseby 1645 Actor Presenter N/A
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The Background and Outbreak of the English Civil War Actor Presenter 59
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The Waterloo Collection: Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack Actor Presenter N/A
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The Charge That Saved the Empire: Geluveldt 1914 Actor Presenter N/A
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Battle of the Bulge: German Field Artillery Actor Presenter N/A
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Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1 Actor Director and Presenter N/A
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Battle of the Bulge: An Intelligence Failure? Actor Presenter N/A
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Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble Actor Presenter N/A
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Directing
2015 The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812 Directing Director N/A
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2015 95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna Directing Director N/A
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2013 Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches Directing Director N/A
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2012 Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter Directing Director N/A
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2012 SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways Directing Director N/A
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2009 The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD Directing Director N/A
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95th Rifles - Dress and Equipment Directing Director N/A
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Editing
2012 Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach Editing Editor N/A
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2009 The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD Editing Editor N/A
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