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.

Known For

Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting

SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour

Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret

Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack

SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways

The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid

All Movies (53)

• Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper2016 · as Presenter
• Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith2015 · as Presenter
• 100 Years War: Poitiers 13562015 · as Presenter
• The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid2015 · as Presenter & Director
• Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack2015 · as Presenter
• The 95th Rifles 1809 - 18122015 · as Presenter and Writer
• 95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna2015 · as Presenter
• Battles of the Marne & the Aisne2015 · as Presenter
• First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea2015 · as Presenter and Director
• The Schlieffen Plan2015 · as Presenter
• The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger2015 · as Presenter
• Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne2015 · as Presenter
• 95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees2014 · as Presenter
• Néry and the Retreat from Mons2014 · as Presenter
• Le Cateau2014 · as Presenter and Director
• Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret2014 · as Presenter & Director
• Mons 19142014 · as Presenter and Director
• Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc2014 · as Presenter and Director
• Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead2013 · as Presenter
• Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne2013 · as Presenter
• Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne2013 · as Himself - Presenter
• 100 Years War: Agincourt 14152013 · as Presenter
• 100 Years War: Crecy 13462013 · as Presenter
• Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches2013 · as Presenter
• Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter2012 · as Presenter
• Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen2012 · as Presenter
• Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods2012 · as Director and Presenter
• Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting2012 · as Presenter
• Salamanca2012 · as Presenter
• SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways2012 · as Presenter
• SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour2012 · as Presenter
• Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach2012 · as Presenter
• 12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division2012 · as Presenter
• Cavalry Charge: La Haie Sainte & Plancenoit - The French and Prussian Attacks2011 · as Presenter
• The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 12011 · as Presenter
• Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge2010 · as Presenter
• Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace2010 · as Presenter
• The 1066 Hastings Campaign2009 · as Presenter
• The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD2009 · as Himself - Presenter and Writer
• The Race to the Sea - 19141914 · as Presenter
• The Waterloo Collection: Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack— · 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
• Siege Warfare 1812: Ciudad Rodrigo & Badajoz - The Keys to Spain— · as Presenter
• Battle of the Bulge: An Intelligence Failure?— · as Presenter
• Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble— · as Presenter
• Battle of the Bulge: German Field Artillery— · as Presenter
• SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket— · as Director and Presenter
• The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse— · as Presenter
• The Background and Outbreak of the English Civil War— · as Presenter
• The Battle of Naseby 1645— · as Presenter
• The Charge That Saved the Empire: Geluveldt 1914— · as Presenter