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.
Filmography
all 51
Movies 51
Director 16
self 2
The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid (2015)
The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812 (2015)
95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna (2015)
The Schlieffen Plan (2015)
First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea (2015)
Le Cateau (2014)
Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret (2014)
Mons 1914 (2014)
Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc (2014)
Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne (2013)
Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches (2013)
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter (2012)
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods (2012)
Salamanca (2012)
SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways (2012)
Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach (2012)
The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD (2009)
The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1
SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket
The 42nd of Foot - Black Watch - Dress and Equipment at Waterloo
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