LIST: MILITARY HISTORY & BATTLEFIELD TOUR OPERATORS

Anglia Battlefield Tours	01376 574130	Schools & groups battlefield tours to Europe. A range of different tours covering different conflicts, including poetry tours to WWI sites such as the Somme & Ypres studying the works of Siegfried Sasson and Wifred Owen.
Back-Roads	020 8987 0990	The Back-Roads Touring Co has a programme of escorted small group battlefield tours (WWI & WWII) in France, Belgium and Holland.
Bartletts Battlefield Journeys	01507 523128	Bartletts specialise in WW1 battlefield sites in France and Belgium, but they also covered the 60th anniversary of the WW2 Normandy Landings in 2004.
Battlefield Tours	0121 430 5348	Operating name for the War Research Society which specialises in taking pilgrims, veterans, widows and children to visit the battlefields, memorials and last resting places of the fallen, combined with guided historical tours of the areas of the First and Second World Wars in Northern France, Belgium, and Italy.
Cooper's Waterloo Tours	01277 890214	Tours led by expert, Graham Cooper, to Napoleonic battlefield sites across Europe (his speciality), and also WW1 and WW2 (Normandy) battlefield sites.
Cultural Experience, The	0845 475 1815	A programme of upmarket scheduled guided tours to a wide selection of battlefields and battlefield re-enactments from the Napoleonic campaigns and the US civil war to the Anglo-Zulu battlefields and Stalingrad.
Dr Thomson's Tours	01227 455922	Small-scale (one-man) tour operator. Dr Thompson is a historian & guide based in Canterbury, he takes private tours to battlefield and historic sites on both sides of the Channel Tunnel, ie. Kent & Sussex (castles, gardens, history), Northern France & Belgium (WWII & WWII) battlefield sites. In 2004 he has two 'space & rocketry' coach tours going to Peenemunde, Berlin, the European Space Technology Centre (ESTEC) at Noordwijk, and the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) at Darmstadt.
Flanders & Somme Tours	020 7281 8180	Guided 1st WW tours.
Galina International Battlefield Tours	01244 340777	Battlefield tours in Europe focused on WWI & WWII but also Agincourt & Waterloo.
Holts Battlefield Tours	0800 731 1914	Well-established (25 years) operator, and probably the best known, specialising in history & battlefield tours with expert guides. A huge range of expert-guided battlefield tours worldwide. Holts was a small independent specialist until Sept 03 when it was aquired by Titan Tours. Holts has now been merged with former competitor, Midas Tours.
In The Footsteps	01989 565599	Family run operator offering private battlefield tour services to WW1 & WW11 sites in France, Belgium, Germany, Holland, UK & South Africa with a team of expert guides, and for tailor made 'geneology tours', research for following in the footsteps of ancestors is free of charge on booking.
Leger	0800 018 9898	Small programme of 1st & 2nd WW battlefield tours in Europe.
Lindum Heritage	01522 845060	LH have a small programme of history short breaks and day tours in the UK of which their Runways to War tour is hugely popular, visiting five WW2 Bomber Command bases in East Anglia including the home of the legendary Dambusters squadron, and a chance to get inside a Lancaster bomber.
Matt Limb Battlefield Tours	0870 74 814 74	Matt Limb OBE is himself a Commanding Officer of a specialist Territorial Army regiment. He takes battlefield tours to 1st & 2nd WW sites on the Continent.
Middlebrook Hodgson Battlefield Tours	01205 364555	Small group tours to 1st World War sites
Old Country Tours	01747 828719	Anglo-American specialist tour operator offering history and battlefield tours in Europe and the USA.
Perception Travel	01844 290635	Tour planners/organisers for visiting the WW2 Normandy landing sites. They also operate air tours of the area by private light aircraft.
Richardson & Gray	01584 878914	Specialise in group tours to WWI & WWII battlefield sites, also for visiting American, Australian and Canadian groups.
Skylark Battlefield Tours	01354 696779	WWI & WWII battlefield tours for colleges, schools and small private groups. They also offer 'Living History' presentations to school classes in the UK.
Remembrance Travel	01622 716729	Remembrance is the Royal British Legion's specialist agency operating two kinds of tours: pilgrimages to cemeteries, memorials and war graves in Europe, Africa and the Far East, and battlefield tours to Europe and South Africa (Boer War sites). They have also been calling themselves 'Poppy Travel' in 2007, though the Remembrance name stays on their website.
Reveille Battlefield Tours	01304 240820	Owner-led, in-depth small group visits by minibus to major sites of WW1 and WW2
Rifleman Tours	01908 617264	Small group guided WW1 battlefield tours with executive coach travel and 3-star hotel accommodation. Itineraries are flexible to incorporate special visits or interests, but they also offer tailormade tours.
Somme Battlefield Tours	01202 880211	Expert-led and self-drive tours of the Somme & Ypres WWI battlefields.
Spider Holidays	0845 373 3015	Small programme of mainly WWI & II battle site tours in Europe but also a Waterloo tour and Falklands war tour.
Tours with Experts	01226 734301	Wide range of battlefield tours with experts in Europe Africa & the USA.
Travel & Learn	01789 263 000	Guided battlefield tours for schools. Travel and Learn is The Royal British Legion’s specialist organiser of visits for schools to battlefields and war cemeteries in many parts of the world, currently their programme features Ypres, The Somme, Normandy, Arnhem, Monte Casino and Berlin.
Waterloo Battlefield Tours	01962 712595	Specialist guided tours to Waterloo.

Notes

• Battle of Waterloo Tours Ex-pat, Alan Lindsey has lived close to the Battlefield of Waterloo for more than 20 years and provides an expert guide service to the battlefield itself and the surroundings sites linked to the battle such as Quatre Bras & Ligny.
• Battlefields Experience, The (not based in the UK) operates WW1 & WW2 battlefield tours in Northern France & Belgium.
• Caravanserai Tours who act as agents for tours to Libya (using Libya-based Arkno tours. See Libya) can organise tours to visits WWII Desert Rats & 8th Army battlefield sites and cemetaries in Libya.
• Battlefields Review magazine is an invaluable source of historical and contemporary information about battlefield sites worldwide - unfortunately none of it online. You have to buy the mag!.
• Civil War Traveler is a useful website detailing historical self-drive tour and trail information to civil war sites in the USA.
• French-Tours offer chauffeur-guided tours of WWI & WWII battlefields sites in France.
• The Three Whales travel agency in Russia offers tours of major Russian World War 2 battlefield sites such as Kursk and Stalingrad.
• The Salient Tours offer twice daily guided WW1 battlefield tours at Ypres and the Somme for independent travellers who have made the own way to the battlefield areas.
Travel Talk is a well-established operator based in Turkey, specialising in guided adventure tours to the Mediterranean region for Brits, Aussies and New Zealanders in the 20 to 35 age group. They offer an ANZAC Day "pilgrimage of culture, history & remembrance" to the beaches, trenches and memorials of Gallipoli.
• Martin Randall Travel have a Poets and the Somme tour led by Andrew Spooner, which runs on specific dates and was favourably reviewed in the Telegraph (Jan 08).
• Trench Map Tours Battlefield guide, Iain McHenry, takes individuals and small groups to WWI sites.
• Abercrombie & Kent are planning two expeditions aboard the small, 118-passenger Clipper Odyssey that will journey to some of the most bitterly fought WW2 naval campaigns in the South Pacific. Highlights will include tracing John F. Kennedy's path through the Solomon Islands, visiting Guadalcanal, and Chuuk Lagoon where guests can see some of the 50+ Japanese naval and merchant ship wrecks and 100 aircraft in the shallow waters of the lagoon.
• Foxley Tours is a one-man operation. Historian Joachim von Halasz leads small tours of WW2 sites in London, Paris, Munich, Berlin and Obersalzberg.
• Battle Fields is a Belgian company operating aerial battle site tours by helicopter.
• Action Stations offer Battle of Britain experiences using a Spitfire and a helicopter based at Manston. You can check over the spitfire on the ground, then go on a helicopter tour of the aerial battleground over the Kent coast with the spitfire flying in tandem.
• Country of Tourism are the guys who do all the extreme and special interest tours in Russia (eg. cosmonaut training, MIG flights) they have many military options including visits to battleground/military museums such as the tank museum in Kubinka, Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Museum of the Battle of Borodino T-34 Tank museum, etc.