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Warhistory1944.co.uk has been in existence for seven years organising academic battlefield tours of Arnhem and Market Garden, The Somme 1916, the Ardennes and Cassino.
We made our name on the Normandy and D Day Campaign battlesites where a large proportion of our clients come to us by recommendation. We are happy to take one person or up to twenty on our Normandy Battlefields Tours and our presentation is based on Staff College lectures and inherent military probability - the result of many years experience as reasonably senior officers.
Most of us have been in more than two wars! And all of us have worked, as soldiers, with officers of all nationalities who have fought at Arnhem & Market Garden, Normandy D Day, the Ardennes and Cassino.
Our parent organisation Normandy Tours who specialise in small groups of 15 to 20 people, and larger groups on demand, has been in existence for rather longer and has become very well known in the USA and Britain for providing the small group tour that academics and professional people want to enjoy, in the company of a few like-minded people.
During the battlefields tours they stay in very good hotels where comfort and good food are taken for granted, they look at the battlefields, the invasion beaches and the battles inland, in detail and they have the time to discuss and debate on the sites themselves, DDay and the battles.
NEPTUNE - The Sea Routes
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Veterans - Near Falaise Normandy
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Perhaps, more important for those going by luxury coach or an individual tour, is the clients ability to choose his date - we run our tours of the Normandy battlefields on any of 364 days every year.
Both parts of the organisation make a speciality of taking Alumni tours for universities to almost any battlefield between North Africa and Hadrian's Wall but if you want an Alumni group to go on tour it would be better to contact Normandytours@aol.com
The organisation, www.normandybattlefields.com and www.warhistory1944.co.uk is run by a McGill University PhD well known for his detailed book on the American Normandy Battlefields, 'Stand Where They Fought', and his lectures all over the United States.
His junior colleague was a professional soldier, a Guardsman, ex Balliol College Oxford and the Staff College Camberley (and he was Military Assistant to the Prime Minister).
From time to time they engage guest lecturers who have similar qualifications, drawn from the armed services in the UK.
A proportion of the turnover is devoted to the Normandy Marker Fund, a charity set up to mark and explain the American battlefields in Normandy.
Morphine Pack
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TNT Explosive Pack
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Tours of the World War Two Battlefields and The Somme
The death throes of Hitler's army in Normandy, Arnhem and the Ardennes and of course the Low Countries and the Somme 1916.
We will take you on any academic battlefield tours you choose of Normandy and D Day, the Dunkirk/Boulogne campaign 1940, Arnhem, Italy and North Africa, from D Day 1944 to the end of the war in Europe 1945. And of course we can show you the detail of the Somme battle in 1916
War-history 1944 is an experienced organisation specialising in Battlefield tours of Normandy, The River Seine and Arnhem/Nijmegen/Eindhoven and the Ardennes/Bulge.
We also take private tours for individuals or small groups to Dunkirk, Boulogne and the 1940 British retreat area. Becoming more and more popular are our weekend tours to the Great War Battlefields and we are happy to continue our Arnhem tour, or establish a specific tour as far as the final 1945 battlefields within Germany. It may interest readers that a proportion of our turnover goes into the Normandy Marker Fund, a registered Foundation formed to place descriptive markers in the Normandy battlefields. This Charity is administered by our parent organisation Normandytours@aol.com
It is headed by a well-known American author whose book on the Normandy Battlefields is a standard work in the United States, and a retired regular soldier (Exeter University, Balliol and the Staff College Camberley). Between the two of them they cover most of what there is to know.
A Londoner, whose Father was killed in Normandy four miles inland, said, last year that ".....the tour was amazingly enjoyable and intellectually rigourous" which is, maybe, what we set out to achieve.
Please click on the menu to the left to read about our tours, see photographs and links to related web sites. Our contact page has a form on which you may contact us directly.
You will almost certainly wish to read 'Stand Where They Fought' by Carlton Joyce (a very good overview of the Normandy campaigns) before you come to France - and, of course, bring it with you.
A copy can be obtained from thepbiinc@aol.com
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