2024 Departures

Battlefield Tours with Specialist Guides:
2024 Departures

With a fascinating range of battlefield tours departing this year to choose from, there’s something to suit all interests in our collection. Browse tours covering WW1, WW2 and a range of other military campaigns, including firm favourites and brand-new experiences, and find your next remarkable journey of discovery.

All of our battlefield tours are accompanied by a Specialist Guide from our knowledgeable team, who will enhance your experience and bring history to life, guaranteeing an informative and rewarding experience.

D-Day Landings in Normandy

D-Day Landings in Normandy

4 - 5 days from £439pp

On this World War 2 introductory tour, we take an in-depth look at the events that took place on June 6th 1944. Seen as a major turning point in...

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All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

4 - 5 days from £399pp

Focusing on the key sites of WW1 on the Western Front in Belgium and France, on our immensely popular All Quiet on the Western Front tour, you ca...

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Battle of the Bulge

Battle of the Bulge

4 - 5 days from £399pp

Choose a four or five day tour option, as we explore what is now the largest battlefield area in Europe. The Battle of the Bulge was the last maj...

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Dunkirk & Fortress Europe

Dunkirk & Fortress Europe

4 - 5 days from £419pp

More than 330,000 British and French troops were evacuated from Dunkirk in May 1940, during Operation Dynamo. It followed the Battle of France an...

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Arnhem 80th Anniversary

Arnhem 80th Anniversary

4 - 5 days from £529pp

In September 2024 we remember Operation Market Garden with the 80th Anniversary of Arnhem. Join us on a 5 Day Tour to remember the actual anniver...

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Air War Europe: Colditz, Dambusters & the Great Escape

Air War Europe: Colditz, Dambusters & the Great Escape

9 days from £1,299pp

Follow the story of WW2 Airmen from the Dambusters to Colditz Castle in Germany and Holland as we look at the battlefields of the war in the air...

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Christmas Markets in Arras & Lille and Battlefields of the Western Front

Christmas Markets in Arras & Lille and Battlefields of the Western Front

5 days from £479pp

Combine a tour of the Battlefields of the Great War, with time at some of France's fantastic Christmas markets.

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WW2 Battlefields & Christmas Markets

NEW WW2 Battlefields & Christmas Markets

5 days from £519pp

Following our popular WW1 Battlefields and Christmas Markets Tours, we are pleased to offer a new WW2-themed tour for 2024, with visits to Christ...

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Understanding the Holocaust, Auschwitz, Kraków & Schindler’s Factory by Air

Understanding the Holocaust, Auschwitz, Kraków & Schindler’s Factory by Air

5 days from £739pp

During World War 2, more than six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust and to this day it is still defined as one of the most terrible and...

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The U-Boat War: The Real Das Boot

The U-Boat War: The Real Das Boot

7 days from £939pp

German U-Boats were active from the very beginning of WW2 but took on a vital role during the Battle of the Atlantic when fleets of them were use...

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The Somme Offensive

The Somme Offensive

4 - 5 days from £509pp

This fascinating tour based in the heart of the Somme battlefields, staying at Albert, takes an in-depth look at both familiar and lesser-known b...

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Operation Market Garden

Operation Market Garden

4 - 5 days from £469pp

During WW2, Operation Market Garden was devised by General Bernard Montgomery to shorten the war in the autumn of 1944. On this tour, we follow t...

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Walking the D-Day Beaches of Normandy

Walking the D-Day Beaches of Normandy

5 days from £699pp

Based around some of the walks featured in our head battlefield guide, Paul Reed’s book; ‘Walking D-Day’, we spend this tour examining the events...

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Secret Army: Belgium in World War 2

Secret Army: Belgium in World War 2

5 days from £699pp

On this fascinating tour, led by Head Battlefield Guide Paul Reed and WW2 author Dr Victoria Humphreys, we look at the story of Belgium in the Se...

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Panzers in Normandy

Panzers in Normandy

5 days from £609pp

On this battlefield tour, we spend time in Normandy exploring the role of German and Allied Tanks in Wolrd War 2. We begin with a visit to the B...

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Gallipoli Battlefields by Air

Gallipoli Battlefields by Air

7 days from £1,349pp

On this World War 1 battlefield tour we visit the haunting Gallipoli battlefields, located in the Dardanelles. See the sites where more than 30,0...

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They Called It Passchendaele

They Called It Passchendaele

5 days from £679pp

In the year 1917, Flanders was dominated by the great offensives of the Battle of Messines and the Battle of Passchendaele. During the battle of...

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Beer & Battlefields in the Ardennes

Beer & Battlefields in the Ardennes

5 days from £609pp

This unique beer and battlefields tour looks at the WW2 fighting in the Ardennes, before visiting local breweries and enjoying the Leffe Experie...

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The Holocaust Remembered – The Moving Story of Anne Frank & Oskar Schindler

The Holocaust Remembered – The Moving Story of Anne Frank & Oskar Schindler

12 days from £1,479pp

Claiming more than 6 million victims, The Holocaust was one of the most horrific parts of World War 2. On this particular tour, we follow the mov...

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Behind the Front Lines

Behind the Front Lines

5 days from £589pp

Life behind the lines was an important part of a soldier’s experience in the First World War. On this new tour we look at three key areas to get...

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Battle of the Bulge 80th Anniversary

NEW Battle of the Bulge 80th Anniversary

4 days from £479pp

The German Ardennes Offensive, known as The Battle of the Bulge, began with a massive assault on the American lines in December 1944. It would be...

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The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich

The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich

12 days from £1,679pp

Join this 12-day tour as we delve into the ‘dark charisma’ of Adolf Hitler. From the rise of National Socialism in the 1920s to Hitler’s move to...

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At War With Wellington: The Peninsular War

At War With Wellington: The Peninsular War

12 days from £1,659pp

In a new version of this popular tour, we travel to Spain and follow the battles and engagements of the army of Sir Arthur Wellesley, Lord Wellin...

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The Battlefields of Belgium – Campaigns from WW1, WW2 & Waterloo

The Battlefields of Belgium – Campaigns from WW1, WW2 & Waterloo

5 days from £639pp

Enjoy an introduction into the military history of the Belgium battlefields from Waterloo to World War One and World War Two. Leaving Bruges, we...

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Commando Operations of WW2 featuring Dieppe, St. Nazaire & Normandy

Commando Operations of WW2 featuring Dieppe, St. Nazaire & Normandy

7 days from £899pp

Follow the Commando actions of World War 2 through France as we take a look at some of the huge battles from Operation Jubilee at Dieppe to the g...

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Hedgerow Hell: The Americans in Normandy

Hedgerow Hell: The Americans in Normandy

5 days from £669pp

As the American forces pushed inland after D-Day, they became entangled in the bloody battles for the hedgerows of the Normandy landscape. Join u...

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France Under the Jackboot – SOE, SAS & the French Resistance

France Under the Jackboot – SOE, SAS & the French Resistance

7 days from £939pp

On this tour, we take a look at how the people of France were affected by the Nazi occupation during World War 2. We focus on the terrible experi...

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All Quiet on the Western Front For Solo Travellers

All Quiet on the Western Front For Solo Travellers

5 days from £809pp

Are you a solo traveller looking for the perfect introduction to WW1 battlefield tours? Focusing on the key sites of WW1 on the Western Front in...

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Belgium in 1914

Belgium in 1914

5 days from £669pp

In this 110th Anniversary Year of the outbreak of the First World War, travel with us to some of the forgotten battlefields in Belgium from the o...

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Walking the Waterloo Battlefields

Walking the Waterloo Battlefields

5 days from £609pp

Join us as we walk the Waterloo Battlefields seeing key places from the La Haye Sainte to Hougoumont. Our tour begins with walks at Quatre Bras a...

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Flanders Fields — Britain's Bastion on the Western Front

Flanders Fields — Britain's Bastion on the Western Front

4 days from £489pp

Regarded as one of the most important British battlefields of World War One, Ypres saw more than 250,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers fall d...

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Walking the Somme Battlefields

Walking the Somme Battlefields

5 days from £639pp

Following the line of the 1st July, we walk the World War 1 Somme battlefields in northern France seeing sites such as Bois Francais, Pals Memori...

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Armistice Day in Flanders

Armistice Day in Flanders

4 - 5 days from £509pp

Commemorate Armistice Day in Flanders along side one of our specialist guides. Visit the World War One battlefield sites located around Flanders,...

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Richard III: The Battle of Bosworth 1485

Richard III: The Battle of Bosworth 1485

3 days from £349pp

Follow the story of King Richard III, as we delve into the history of his dramatic end on Bosworth field. We attend the annual Battle of Bosworth...

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Forgotten Battlefields of WW1

Forgotten Battlefields of WW1

5 days from £569pp

The battles of 1915 and the fighting at Arras and Cambrai in 1917 are important but often forgotten battles of WW1, this tour helps explain their...

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Walking The Ypres Salient

Walking The Ypres Salient

5 days from £739pp

On this tour we walk the Ypres battlefields of World War 1, visiting the sites of the Ypres Salient and discussing the fighting that happened her...

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The Silent Cities: The CWGC Story

The Silent Cities: The CWGC Story

5 days from £669pp

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cares for the graves and memorials of 1.7 million men and women who died in the two World Wars. Founded in...

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The Great Escaper: From Portsmouth to Normandy

The Great Escaper: From Portsmouth to Normandy

5 days from £649pp

D-Day was one of the great turning points in the Second World War. The invasion of the French coastline in Normandy saw more than 156,000 Allied...

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Anzio, Monte Cassino & San Pietro: Italian Campaign by Air

Anzio, Monte Cassino & San Pietro: Italian Campaign by Air

5 days from £969pp

Take an in depth look at the Italian Campaign and the key battlefield sites of 1943 to 1944, in Anzio, Monte Cassino and San Pietro, on this fasc...

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Panzers in The Ardennes

Panzers in The Ardennes

5 days from £669pp

The Ardennes is the largest single WW2 battlefield in Western Europe and has a remarkable outdoor museum of tanks, battle sites and memorials. On...

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War Poets & War Literature

War Poets & War Literature

5 days from £709pp

The experience of both World Wars provoked a huge amount of war poetry and literature. On this new tour, Head Battlefield Guide Paul Reed is join...

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War by Timetable

War by Timetable

5 days from £709pp

The opening moves of the First World War saw trains taking thousands of men to the front. When the war became static along the Western Front, tra...

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Reims & Verdun

Reims & Verdun

5 days from £639pp

On this fascinating new battlefield tour we look at the ground fought over by the British, French and German Armies in Reims, combining with a vi...

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