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
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Movies 51
Director 16
self 2
Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper (2016)
Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith (2015)
100 Years War: Poitiers 1356 (2015)
The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid (2015)
Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack (2015)
The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812 (2015)
95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna (2015)
Battles of the Marne & the Aisne (2015)
The Schlieffen Plan (2015)
First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea (2015)
Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne (2015)
The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger (2015)
95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees (2014)
Néry and the Retreat from Mons (2014)
Le Cateau (2014)
Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret (2014)
Mons 1914 (2014)
Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc (2014)
Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead (2013)
Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne (2013)
Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne (2013)
100 Years War: Agincourt 1415 (2013)
100 Years War: Crecy 1346 (2013)
Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches (2013)
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter (2012)
Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen (2012)
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods (2012)
Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting (2012)
Salamanca (2012)
SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways (2012)
SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour (2012)
Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach (2012)
12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division (2012)
Cavalry Charge: La Haie Sainte & Plancenoit - The French and Prussian Attacks (2011)
The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1 (2011)
Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge (2010)
Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace (2010)
The 1066 Hastings Campaign (2009)
The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD (2009)
The Race to the Sea - 1914 (1914)
The Charge That Saved the Empire: Geluveldt 1914
The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1
Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble
The Background and Outbreak of the English Civil War
SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket
The Waterloo Collection: Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack
The 42nd of Foot - Black Watch - Dress and Equipment at Waterloo
Siege Warfare 1812: Ciudad Rodrigo & Badajoz - The Keys to Spain
Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4
95th Rifles - Dress and Equipment
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