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Battlefield Tours
Battlefields of Europe and Beyond: Lets take you on an escorted tour of the Battlefields of the first and second World Wars. Walk in the footsteps of heroes,with our un-rivalled specialist battlefield guides.These tours are suitable for anyone with a general interest in the events of the two world wars.
These tours are for veterans,relatives,educational groups,veterans associations or those who want to understand the circumstances surrounding the sacrifice made by a loved one or comrade.
You will discover the setting for the battles,the way they were fought and mostimportantly,the human element, stories of the men, their motivation and their heroism.
Battlefields Tours 2010 Welcome to this new and very special collection of battlefield experiences...
We offer you a selection of Guided Battlefield Tours with Specialist Guides visiting the Battlefields of Europe and the World. You can visit a number of WWI and WWII battlefields across Europe including, D-Day Beaches, The Western Front, Flanders Fields, The Somme, Passchendaele and many more...
As soon as the fighting ended, people began visiting the battlefields ; some even made the journey while the battles were still being fought. Whether out of curiosity or to visit the grave of a loved one, we invite you to recount the historical events of the First and Second World Wars with us.All the tours are suited to anyone with a general interest in the two World Wars, wanting to understand the circumstances surrounding the immense sacrifices made for the sake of future generations. Whether you are a veteran, relative, or an educational or special interest group, the specialist battlefield guides will take you on a truly emotive journey of discovery, insight and understanding. Discover the setting for each battle, the strategies employed, and the most revealing accounts of the human element behind the pages of the history books.
If you have any questions about any of the Battlefield Tours please ring one of our expert holiday advisers who will be happy and able to help you |
WORLD WAR 1 All Quiet on the Western Front (Discover the stories,tragedy and bravery of the
First World War Battlefields of the Somme & Flanders,)
4 and 5 Day Breaks Price Includes :-
3 or 4 Nights accomodation with Continental Breakfast.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
Battlefield Visits;Battlefields of Flanders,Tunnels and
Trenches(5day break only).The Somme,Death of a Generation.
EXECUTIVE COACH:- 4 DAYS:-
Sep 10,24 £269,Oct 01,28 £269
SILVER SERVICE :- 4 DAYS:-
Oct 14,28 £299.
EXECUTIVE COACH :- 5 DAYS.
Sep 06,20 £329,Oct 11,25 £329.
SILVER SERVICE:- 5 DAYS:-
Sep 13,27 £389,Oct 04,25 £389. |
NEW for 2010:-
Poets on the Somme
The story of the lives and deaths
of the Great War Poets ThJoin us on thisfascinating new tour
looking at the war poets who fought and died
on the Somme and Arras, combined with a visit
to Ors, where Wilfred Owen is buried.
Price Includes:-
3 nts accomodation with Breakfast.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
2 Battlefields Visits.
EXECUTIVE COACH:-
Sep 10-£279.
SILVER SERVICE:-
Oct 28 £299. |
Arras-Britains Bloodiest Battle
and the War Underground The fighting in Arras in April-May 1917 was unique
in many ways- it became the deadliest battlefield on which
British soldiers fought.
Price Includes:- 4 Nts accomodation with Breakfast.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
3 included Battlefields Visits.
Arras Underground: Vimy Ridge:Chemical Works.
Upgrade to Silver Service, get Porterage at your Hotels.
Smaller more personal group.
EXECUTIVE COACH:- Sep 13 £375.
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SILVER SERVICE:-
Oct 25 £399. |
NEW for 2010:-
Champagne,Marne and Verdun Join us for the fascinating new tour looking
at three key Battlefields of the Great War:-
The Champagne scene of terrific fighting involving
the French in 1915 and 1917,and the Americans in 1918:
The Marne in 1914,and where the British soldiers
ended up following the retreat from Mons: and Verdun,
site of the great French defence in 1916 and the
American Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918.
Price Includes:- 4 Nts accomodation with
Continental Breakfast.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
3 full day Battlefields Visits.
Upgrade to Silver Service:
get Porterage at your Hotels.
Extra legroom. Deluxe reclining seats.
Free personal headphones and choice of music,
DVD's or satellite navigation display to follow
your journeys progress.
Comfortable rear lounge
Smaller more personal group.
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SILVER SERVICE:-
Sep 20 £385,Oct 25-£379. |
Walking Arras - 5 Days 2010:-
This new tour is based around walks in
Paul Reeds book 'Walking Arras'
Price Includes:- 4 nts accomodation with
Continental Breakfast.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
5 Battlefields Walks.
EXECUTIVE COACH:-
Oct 11-£349. |
Cycling the Ypres Salient
A lesiurely cycling tour of the 1st World War
Ypres Battlefield Together with your specialist battlefields guide,
discover the front line areas surrounding Ypres by bike.
Price Includes:- 4 nts Accomodation with
Continental Breakfast in Ypres.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
3 Cycling excursions. Bicycle Hire.
EXECUTIVE COACH:- |
WALKING the YPRES SALIENT 2010:-
(A leisurely tour walking over the infamous
battlefields of Western Belgium)
5 Days Executive Coach :-
Price Includes:-4 nights accomodation with
Continental breakfastin Ypres.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
5 Battlefields walks:-
Each walk is approximately 4 miles.
EXECUTIVE COACH:-
Sep 13 £399.
SILVER SERVICE:-
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GALLIPOLI BATTLEFIELDS by AIR ("Damn the Dardanelles they will be our grave"
Admiral Fisher to Winston Churchill 1915)
Price Includes :- 7 Nights accomodation with
continental breakfast.
Specialist Battlefield Guide.
6 Battlefield visits and Excursions:-
Gabatepe & Helles Memorial.
British landings Cape Heelles-Krithia.
ANZAC Beach-Lone Pine.
Suvla Bay-Shell Green.
Channakale-Troy.
Istanbul.
Return flights with B.A. from Heathrow
to Istanbul.
Supplement for flights from Mnachester
£100 per person.
BY AIR;- Sep 25-£929. |
WALKING the SOMME 2010:- A leisurely walking tour covering the
major battles of the Somme.
The haunting Somme Battlefields offer perhaps
the best walking ground on the Western front.
5 Days Executive Coach :-
Price Includes:-4 nights accomodation with
Continental Breakfast.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
5 Battlefield walks.
Each walk is approximately 3-4 miles.
EXECUTIVE COACH:- Sep 06-£359 |
ARMISTACE DAY in YPRES ("The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day
of thye Eleventh Month")
Price Includes:-
3 nights accomodation with breakfast.
Specialist Battlefield Guide.
2 Battlefield visits :-
The Ypres Salient.
Ypres and the Armistace Day Ceremonies
EXECUTIVE COACH:- Nov 10-£269.
SILVER SERVICE:- Nov 10-£299.
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NEW for 2010:-
The Battlefields of Belgium -
Campaigns from both WWI & WWII This new tour looks at some of the key
operations and battles from both conflicts.
Price Includes:- 4 nts accomodation with
Continental Breakfast.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
Battlefields visits and excursions:-
Firts Shots - Blitzkrieg,
Flanders Fields,The long left flank-
Brussels War Museum.
SILVER SERVICE:-
Sep 13 £369, oct 25 £369. |
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WORLD WAR 2 ARMISTICE DAY in NORMANDY
ITINERARY 2010
(Remembering the sacrifice of the
fallen on D-Day and in WWII)
Price Includes:-
Travel by Silver Service luxury coach.
PorteRage at your Hotel.
3 Nights accomodation with continental
breakfast.
Specialist Battlefield Guide.
2 included Battlefield visits:-
Armistace Day in Normandy.
Merville Battery & the American Sector
Dep 09 Nov -£279.
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OPERATION MARKET GARDEN ITINERARY 2010:-
Arnheim- The battle that might never have happened!We will
follow the Ill faated operation devised by General Montgmery
to shorten the war.
Price Includes:-
3 Nights accomodation with breakfast.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
2 Battlefields visits:- Ysselsteyn,
Hells Highway and Oosterbeek.
EXECUTIVE COACH:- Sep 24 £299. |
ARNHEM and RHINE CROSSINGS ITINERARY 2010
(A Bridge To Far)- 5 DAYS
Price Includes:-4 nights accommodation with breakfast
and 2 evening meals.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
3 Battlefield visits,:-
Arnhem Battle for the bridges,
River Rhine,Rees, Wesel and Hamminkein,
Remagen-the Rhine Crossing.
EXECUTIVE COACH:-
Sep 20-£349. |
D-DAY LANDINGS in NORMANDY ITINERARY 2010
See the landing beaches and battlegrounds,
military cemetries and museums of the
biggest invasion force ever assembled.
Price Includes:-
3 or4 nights accommodation with breakfast.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
Battlefield visits,:- The British Sector,
The American Sector,
(The Inland Battles- 5 Day Break only)
EXEXCUTIVE COACH-4 DAYS:- Sep 10,24 £259,
Oct 01 £259,Oct 28 £249.
SILVER SERVICE - 4 DAYS:-
Oct 28 £289.
EXECUTIVE COACH - 5 DAYS:-
Sep 27 £329,Oct 25 £319.
SILVER SERVICE :-5 DAYS:-
Sep 06,13,20 £385,Oct 04,11 £375,Oct 25 £375. |
DUNKIRK and FORTRESS EUROPE (Blitzkrieg to the "V" weapons)
Price Includes:-
4 nights accommodation with breakfast.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
4 included Battlefield visits,:-
Dunkirk.
Coastal Defences,Wormhout and Ostend,La Coupole.
SILVER SERVICE:-
Sep 13 £359,Oct 04 £359. |
THE BATTLE of the BULGE The Ardennes Offensive-Hitlers Last Gamble.
Price Includes:-3 nights accommodation with breakfast.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
Battlefield visits:-
The Bulge,
Bastogne,
Bure and Bande.
EXECUTIVE COACH:- Sep 10 £269.
SILVER SERVICE:- Oct 28 £289. |
THE GREATEST RAID of ALL (The Commandos in Northern France)
Price Includes:-Travel by
SILVER SERVICE luxury coach.
Porterage in all Hotels.
Smaller more personal group.
6 nights accommodation with breakfast.
Specialist Battlefields Guide
4 Battlefields excursions and visits;-
Operation Jubilee(Dieppe)
Operation Charlot(St Nazaire)
Lorient & the U-Boat Pens.
Commandos/Rangers in Normandy.
SILVER SERVICE COACH:- Sep 27 £499,Oct 11 £469. |
COLDITZ, DAMBUSTERS
& the GREAT ESCAPE (Honouring the Commitment and Spirit
of the RAF during WWII)
Price Includes:-8 nights accommodation with Breakfast.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
6 Battlefield visits and excursions:-
Ruhr Valley and Rheinberg,Colditz,
The Dresden Raids, To Zagan for the Great Escape
Battle for Berlin,Arnhem and Dambusters.
EXECUTIVE COACH:-
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SILVER SERVICE:-
Sep 04 £725,Oct 02,23 £709. |
THE COLD WAR,THE STASI,
and the BERLIN WALL. Join us on this,fascinating new tour,
discover revelations of the Cold War and
lives of Germans under Communist control
Price Includes:-
6 nights accommodation with breakfast.
Specialist Historical Guide.
Visits:-Mohne Dam,Berlin,Saschenhausen,
Allied Museum & Potsdam,Leipzig,and
Stasi Museum.
EXECUTIVE COACH:-
Sep 11 £399.
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SILVER SERVICE:- |
NEW FOR 2010
THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN BY AIR. Italian was considered the 'soft
underbelly' of the third reich, but saw
some of the toughest fighting in WW2.
During 2 years more than 50,000 British
and Commonwealth soldiers fell on
battlefields like Anzio,Casino,Salerno
and the Sangro.
8 Days by AIR
Price Includes:-
Travel by air conditioned coach.
Return flights to Rome.
Airport transfers in Italy.
7 nights accommodation with breakfast
and Evening Meals and 1 Lunch.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
Battlefield visits and excursions:-
Salerno and Caserta,Monte Cassino,
Hill 593,Snakeshead Ridge & the
Liri Valley,Anzio,Sangro and Ortona,
Volturno.
By Air:- Sep 11 £799. |
THE STORY of ANNE FRANK & OSCAR SCHINDLER ITINERARY 2010:-
A Moving and Thought Provoking Journey of Remembrance
12 Days:-
Price Includes:-
11 nights accommodation with breakfast.
Specialist Historical Guide.
7 Excursions and Visits:-
Frank Family Anne Frank's House,
Bergen-Belsen and Anne Frank's Memorial,
Berlin & the final solution,
German Resistance & Holocaust Memorial.
Kasimirsh & the Oscar Shindler Story,
The Auschwitz story,
Heydrich Story and Nuremberg Courtroom.
SILVER SERVICE:- Sep 20 £889,Oct 04-£859. |
HITLERS CAPITALS - THE RISE AND
FALL OF THE THIRD REICH 2010 ITINERY.
Adolf Hitler always thought of Munich and Nuremberg
as his 2 capitals,discover the haunting story of the
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich from 1923 to 1945.
9 Days Price Includes:-
8 nights accommodation with breakfast.
Specialist Battlefields Guide.
7 Battlefields Visits and Excursions:-
Munich,Berchtesgaden,Munich including Dachau,
Nuremberg,The Rhine including Rhine cruise
with Lunch,The Ardennes Offensive.
12 Day Tour Extra visits:-
Evening Meal Package:- 9Day Tour:-
5 evening meals in Bad Aibling and
Nuremburg/Bayreuth.
£60 per person when pre booked.
12 Day Tour:-
8 evening meals in Berlin,Bad Aibling,
Nuremburg/Bayreuth.
£109 per person when pre booked.
Final Solutions,Nazi Berlin
SILVER SERVICE:- Sep 18 £739. |
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OTHER CAMPAIGNS JERSEY-OCCUPATION & LIBERATION The Channel Islands were the only part
of the British Isles to be occupied by the
Germans during World War II.
5 Days:-
Price Includes:-
4 nights accommodation with breakfast and
evening meal,and one lunch(7 nights on
Battle of Britain departure).
Specialist Occupation Guide.
Excursions & visits including entrances:-
5 DAY BREAK by AIR.
Sep 16 £499,Oct 19 £449.
8 DAY BREAK by AIR.
Sep 05 £699. |
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR Washington,Gettysburg,Antietam,Harpers Ferry, Appomattox,Petersburg,Richmond....
The years of 1861 to 1865 saw America torn between allegiances in the deadliest war in the
history of the country.
9 DAYS-Price Includes:-
Return scheduled flights from London to Washington return.
Airport Taxes. Transfers in the U.S.A.
7 Nights accommodation,sharing a twin room,
on a room-only basis.Air conditioned coach.
Fully escorted in the U.S.A by a Specialist Historical Guide. Hotel Porterage(1 bag per person).
Excursins ;- Washingtn DC,Gettysburg,
Antietam Battlefieldand Harpers Ferry.
Lynchburg Virginia.
Appomattx,Petersburg and Richmond.
Washington DC Arlington Cemetary.
All flights are with Virgin or B.A regional connections
available from a supplement of £115 per person.
SEPTEMBER 20 2010 £1,299 |
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NEW FOR 2010:- BATTLES IN THE HOLYLAND
The First World War and the Arab Israeli Conflict. These fascinating lands with so many biblical and historical sites have been beleagured by battles throughout history. This tour, ecorted by our specialist guide,explores the battles of the First World War to overcome the Ottomans and also gives an insight into the battles of more recent Arab-Israeli conflicts, througha mixtureof visits and talks with those involved at the time.Time is also taken to give you the opportunity to discover many of the specialist Biblical and historic sites which abound in the Holyland.
8 Day Breaks Price Includes :-
Return flights to Tel Aviv from Luton or Manchester.
7 Nights accomodation with Breakfast and 7 evening meals.
Specialist Historical Guide.
Visits to Battlefields and places of interest in our itinerary.
BY AIR:- OCT 14 £1,199. |
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