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.

Acting History

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