Tours
This tour retraces the steps of the British Expeditionary Force as it fights a withdrawal through
northern France in May 1940 culminating in the evacuation at Dunkirk.
Gibraltar - even today a name synonymous with Britain's Empire, has stood as a symbol of
military strength and might since the Spanish Muslims built a fort here in 1068. This tour
follows the life of 'The Rock' from when it was ceded to Britain in 1713 until the end of
the Second World War.
The Jacobite rebellion of 1745 culminated in the last pitched battle ever fought on British soil, and with the defeat of the Jacobite army it brought the curtain down on almost one hundred
years of political and religious strife in Scotland. Join us as we follow the Jacobite
route back through the heart of Scotland.
Waterloo - a highly evocative name and arguably the most famous battle in history, at least perhaps as far as the British are concerned. But the echoes of this epic battle still reverberate around the world because Waterloo is a decisive battle that, had the outcome been different, the world in which we live today would have been rather different.
The strategic location of Ypres meant that it was privy to some of the most horrific battles on the Western Front while conditions in the town were barely fit for human existence. Join us as we look at these battles and recount the heroism of soldiers amidst the normality of civilised life in Ypres today.
The Battle of the Somme, fought from July to November 1916, was amongst the largest of World War I battles, but also one of the bloodiest ever recorded. The allied attempt to break through the centre of the German lines, thus relieving pressure on the French at Verdun, had by its end incurred losses heavier than those seen at Verdun.
Verdun is a linchpin of history - its location has placed it at the forefront of destiny, and
the events that occurred in the beautiful French countryside surrounding this historic fortress
town have impacted directly on the world we live in today. Verdun is the direct reason for the
slaughter on that crucible of the British soldier, The Somme in 1916.
Operation Market Garden was a high risk operation that, if successful, could end the war. If Market-Garden failed however, the results would be spectacularly disastrous. In the heady weeks following the pursuit of the German army across France after the Allied Breakout from Normandy, the chance of failure was something that no-one, not least Montgomery, would contemplate.
D-Day 6th June 1944 - the Allied invasion of Nazi Occupied Europe was one of the events of the Second World War that truly held the outcome of the war in the balance. Some would argue that D-Day was the event that changed the course of the war. Certainly, Allied failure on D-Day would have had extremely dire consequences for the entire ‘free' world.
Join with us as we explore Hitler's last blitzkrieg, the Battle of the Bulge. On this tour we'll examine both German and Allied strategies and explore the physical scars left by war on this beautiful and now peaceful part of Belgium.