World War 2 Battlefield Tours
On 3rd September 1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany in response to their country's unprovoked attack against Poland two days earlier. The German army overpowered the Polish army and moved in to occupy the territory. Meanwhile, there was not much either Britain or France could do, except at sea where after an intense engagement, the Royal Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy forced the German Navy to scuttle the Graf Spee. In Europe, for several months, there was little or no activity along the Franco-German border and the period became known as the 'Phoney War'.
Ardennes & Battle of the Bulge
By the 16th December 1944, the once-powerful German army was in retreat from the West. American troops in position along the Belgian-German border were looking forward to Christmas. The German 'Westwall' defensive ...
3-5 Day Tours from £169pp
Arnhem & Operation Market Garden
By September 1944 the Allies had broken out of Normandy and were advancing across Europe. Operation Market Garden was one of the boldest plans of the war, over 30,000 Allied troops were to be flown behind enemy lines, into ...
3-5 Day Tours from £199pp
Berlin - The Final Push
At the beginning of 1945 the Anglo-American forces, pressed in from the west and the Soviet Red Army advanced inexorably from the east, squeezing the German army ever-tighter and restricting its opportunity for movement. ...
6 Day Tour from £285pp
Crete Operation Mercury
On 20th May 1940 the Germans launched a daring airborne assault to capture the Greek island of Crete, having successfully pushed the Allies out of mainland Greece. The attack, known as 'Operation Mercury' involved 14,000 ...
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D-Day Landings in Normandy
On the 6th June 1944 Allied Troops stormed the beaches of Normandy to establish a foothold in France, this was the turning point of the Second World War in the West. D-Day was a remarkable achievement, involving nearly ...
3-5 Day Tours from £199pp
Dunkirk - Operation Dynamo
On the 3rd September 1939 Britain declared war on Germany and in the same month an initial 300,000 soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) led by Lord Gort arrived in France. The period between then and the start ...
1-2 Day Tours from £75pp
Holocaust - The Final Solution
On the 24th January 2005 at a sitting of the United Nations General Assembly, delegates commemorated the 60th anniversary to mark the liberation of the Nazi Death Camps. At a meeting later that year, on the 1st November, ...
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Jersey - The Occupation
Lying just off the coast of northern France, the Channel Islands are a unique part of the British Isles with a long history spanning many centuries. The largest of the islands is Jersey, covering just 45 square miles, and ...
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Krakow and Auschwitz
Krakow is one the oldest cities in Poland, situated near the border with the Czech Republic it is brimming with history, from its birth back in the 7th Century right through to the present day. The city is the second ...
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In The Path of Patton
After the Second World War, General Gunther Blumentritt, who helped plan the Bliztkrieg against Poland in 1939 and France in 1940, stated that many German officers held General George S Patton in high regard and believed ...
3-5 Day Tours from £199pp
Malta - The George Cross Island
The island of Malta has long been a strategic base for British forces operating in the Mediterranean Sea, or as a stop-off point for those en route to other theatres. During the Crimean War of 1853-1856, ships stopped at ...
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Monte Cassino and Anzio
After the success of the Allied landings and campaign on Sicily, the Allies kept up the pressure against the Germans and Italians by effecting a landing on the mainland of Italy on 3rd September 1943. The Allies expected a ...
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Sicily - Operation Husky
Following the German defeat in North Africa, Hitler knew it was only a question of time before the Allies made their next move. Logically, the Allies would attack somewhere in the Mediterranean, but the question was where? ...
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V for Vengeance - V Weapon Sites
The first attacks by V-1 Flying Bombs came on the 13th June 1944, only one week after the D-Day landings in Normandy. In the early hours of the morning observers reported a mysterious object flying inland and within hours ...
3-4 Day Tours from £239pp
D-Day Landings – South Coast UK
On the 6th June 1944 Allied Troops stormed the beaches of Normandy to establish a foothold in France, this was the turning point of the Second World War in the West. D-Day was a remarkable achievement ...
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The Battle of the Scheldt
After the breakout from Normandy, the German forces held on stubbornly to the French and Belgian Channel ports. This forced the Allies to bring all supplies for their rapidly advancing armies from the artificial harbour they had constructed off the beaches of Normandy and from Cherbourg, which was far from ideal. ...
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The Battle of Britain
Fought over southern England in the summer and autumn of 1940, The Battle of Britain was the first major battle which took place entirely in the air. Over 3,000 men of the RAF took part, outnumbered by the Luftwaffe, British Hurricanes and Spitfires took to the air, supported by thousands of ground crew ...
