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