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| Battlefield Tours By Coach & Air - All Tours at Discount Prices |
| See and discover more with a Specialist Battlefield Guide |
| Paul Reed WORLD WAR I FIRST WORLD WAR tours have been selected by Paul Reed. Paul has an MA in history and 20 years’ experience as a military history researcher, lecturer and battlefields guide. As the author of five definitive books on WWI, Paul’s tours bring history to life. Paul has also appeared on the BBC2 programmes, ‘Meet the Ancestors’ and ‘Timewatch’. Tony Lea WORLD WAR II SECOND WORLD WAR tours have been selected by Tony Lea. After visiting Normandy 24 years ago, Tony’s interest in the North Western European Theatre of War has increased over the years. A popular guide, Tony is also associated with the Merville Battery in Normandy and a frequent contributor to historical T.V. documentaries. Bill McQuade WORLD WAR II Tony is assisted by Bill McQuade, a specialist in many areas, in particular the allied aircraft bombing raids over Germany and the history of escape attempts by prisoners of war. When Paul, Tony and Bill are not available, one of our carefully selected team of specialist battlefield guides will accompany you. |
| All Quiet On The Western
Front Coach Tours - 4 or 5 Days |
Arras - Britain's Bloodiest Battle & The War Underground Coach Tours - 5 Days |
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The
fighting at Arras in April-May 1917 was unique in many ways
– it became the deadliest battlefield on which British soldiers
fought. click here to view |
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| Advance
to Victory - the Last 100 Days Coach Tours - 5 Days |
Reims & Verdun Coach Tours - 5 Days |
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Following our
theme of the 90th anniversary of the Great War, for 2008 we
look at the key battles of the last one hundred days of 1918. click here to view |
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Verdun
was one of the worst battlefields of the First World War both
in terms of the terrible conditions on the ground, with mud,
shell holes and barbed wire, and the huge losses: some 770,000
casualties were suffered here in 1916. click here to view |
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| Walking
The Somme Coach Tours - 5 Days |
Walking The Ypres
Salient Coach Tours - 5 Days |
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The haunting
Somme Battlefields offer perhaps the best walking ground on
The Western Front. Join us on some new walks for 2008 together
with some old favourites. click here to view |
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Follow
the battlelines of Passchendaele and mine warfare. click here to view |
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| Gallipoli By Air - 8 Days |
NEW
tour for 2009 Western Front Explorer Coach Tours - 9 Days |
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“Damn
The Dardanelles, they will be our grave.” Admiral Fisher
to Winston Churchill, 1915. click here to view |
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This
unique battlefield tour takes you from one end of the Western
Front battlefields to another, exploring aspects of all 450
miles of the old trench lines, visiting memorials, bunkers,
cemeteries and preserved trench systems. click here to view |
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| Walking Arras Coach Tours - 5 Days |
Cycling The Ypres Salient Coach Tours - 5 Days |
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This
new tour is based around walks in Paul Reed’s book ‘Walking
Arras’. click here to view |
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Together
with your Specialist Battlefields Guide, discover by bike
the front line areas surrounding Ypres. click here to view |
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| Hitler's Capitals - the Rise & Fall of the Third Reich - Coach Tours - 9 Days |
The
65th Anniversary of the
D-Day Landings Coach Tours - 4 Days |
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Adolf
Hitler always thought of Munich and Nuremberg as his two capitals;
discover the haunting story of the rise and fall of the Third
Reich from 1923 to 1945. click here to view |
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Join
us for a moving journey of remembrance on this very special
anniversary. click here to view |
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| D-Day
Landings In Normandy Coach Tours - 4 & 5 Days |
The Greatest Raid
of All The Commandos in Northern France - 7 Days |
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See the landing
beaches, battlegrounds, military cemeteries and museums of
the single biggest invasion force ever assembled. click here to view |
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On
May 10th 1940, German troops invaded the Low Countries and
France. Just less than one month later some 380,000 British
and French troops had been evacuated from the Channel ports. click here to view |
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| Arnhem
& The Rhine Crossings Coach Tours - 5 Days |
Operation Market
Garden Coach Tours - 4 Days |
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This
tour looks at the Allied attempts to cross the mighty River
Rhine, with, firstly a study of the battle for Arnhem, followed
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Arnhem
– the battle that might never have happened! It is in this
region that we follow fated operation devised by General Montgomery
to shorten the war. click here to view |
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| Dunkirk
& Fortress Europe Coach Tours - 5 Days |
Battle Of The
Bulge Coach Tours - 4 Days |
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More
than 300,000 troops were evacuated from Dunkirk and the surrounding
beaches in May and June 1940. At the time the British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill said it was "a miracle of deliverance". click here to view |
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On
a wintery mid-December day in 1944, three powerful German
armies plunged into the semi-mountainous, heavily forested
Ardennes region of eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg.
click here to view |
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| Colditz,
Dambusters & The Great Escape Coach Tours - 9 Days |
Americans in Normandy Coach Tours - 5 Days |
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Honouring
the commitment and spirit of the RAF during WWII. This poignant
reminder of the RAF’s contribution to the war effort visits
the Ruhr Valley, ‘Colditz’, Dresden, Zagan, Berlin and Swiss
Saxony. click here to view |
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‘Bloody
Omaha’ and beyond. click here to view |
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| The
Italian Campaign & Hitlers Rise & Fall Coach Tours - 12 Days |
Armistice
Day In Ypres Coach Tours - 4 Days |
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A
facinating tour featuring many major battles; we uncover the
impact of the Italian Campaign of 1944 and learn of the rise
and fall of Hitler and National Socialism. click here to view |
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‘The
eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month…’
Our annual return to Ypres for Armistice Day continues. click here to view |
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| Anne
Frank and Oscar Schindler Coach Tours - 12 Days |
Armistice Day
In Normandy Coach Tours - 4 Days |
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Follow
the tragic but brave story of these two remarkable individuals
during some of Europe’s darkest days, through Holland
into Germany and onto Poland and the Czech Republic. click here to view |
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Remembering
the sacrifice of the fallen on D-Day and in WW2. click here to view |
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| Waterloo
Campaign Coach Tours - 4 Days |
The
American Civil War By Air - 9 Days |
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Visit
the key locations of Anglo-Allied, French and Prussian activity
in a campaing that shaped the future of modern Europe. click here to view |
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The
years 1861 to 1865 saw America torn between allegiances in
the deadliest war in the history of the country. click here to view |