Person
Tim Saunders
Acting
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.
Known for

Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting
Presenter
Mons 1914
Presenter and Director
95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees
Presenter
Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne
Himself - Presenter
100 Years War: Crecy 1346
Presenter
The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1
Presenter
Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith
Presenter
Cavalry Charge: La Haie Sainte & Plancenoit - The French and Prussian Attacks
Presenter
95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna
Presenter
The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD
Himself - Presenter and Writer
Filmography
- 2016Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe PeiperPresenter
- 2015Battle of the Bulge: Saint VithPresenter
- 2015100 Years War: Poitiers 1356Presenter
- 2015The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest RaidPresenter & Director
- 2015Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas AttackPresenter
- 2015The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812Presenter and Writer
- 201595th Rifles 1800 to CorunnaPresenter
- 2015Battles of the Marne & the AisnePresenter
- 2015First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the SeaPresenter and Director
- 2015The Schlieffen PlanPresenter
- 2015The Germans in Normandy: 6th FallschirmjaegerPresenter
- 2015Battle of the Bulge: Siege of BastognePresenter
- 201495th Rifles: 1812 to the PyreneesPresenter
- 2014Néry and the Retreat from MonsPresenter
- 2014Le CateauPresenter and Director
- 2014Bletchley Park and the Ultra SecretPresenter & Director
- 2014Mons 1914Presenter and Director
- 2014Assault on Normandy: Pointe du HocPresenter and Director
- 2013Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the BeachheadPresenter
- 2013Assault on Normandy: 6th AirbornePresenter
- 2013Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for BastogneHimself - Presenter
- 2013100 Years War: Agincourt 1415Presenter
- 2013100 Years War: Crecy 1346Presenter
- 2013Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the BeachesPresenter
- 2012Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek PerimeterPresenter
- 2012Operation Market Garden: NijmegenPresenter
- 2012Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the WoodsDirector and Presenter
- 2012Bruneval Raid: Operation BitingPresenter
- 2012SalamancaPresenter
- 2012SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railwaysPresenter
- 2012SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and OradourPresenter
- 2012Assault on Normandy: Sword BeachPresenter
- 201212th Hitlerjugend Panzer DivisionPresenter
- 2011Cavalry Charge: La Haie Sainte & Plancenoit - The French and Prussian AttacksPresenter
- 2011The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1Presenter
- 2010Assault on Normandy: Pegasus BridgePresenter
- 2010Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer AcePresenter
- 2009The 1066 Hastings CampaignPresenter
- 2009The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 ADHimself - Presenter and Writer
- 1914The Race to the Sea - 1914Presenter
- —The Waterloo Collection: Hougoumont and D'Erlon's AttackPresenter
- —Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1Director and Presenter
- —Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4Presenter
- —The 42nd of Foot - Black Watch - Dress and Equipment at WaterlooDirector and Editor
- —Siege Warfare 1812: Ciudad Rodrigo & Badajoz - The Keys to SpainPresenter
- —Battle of the Bulge: An Intelligence Failure?Presenter
- —Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last GamblePresenter
- —Battle of the Bulge: German Field ArtilleryPresenter
- —SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation BulbasketDirector and Presenter
- —The Somme 1916: Mansel CopsePresenter
- —The Background and Outbreak of the English Civil WarPresenter
- —The Battle of Naseby 1645Presenter
- —The Charge That Saved the Empire: Geluveldt 1914Presenter
- —95th Rifles - Dress and EquipmentDirector
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