TOUR GUIDES
As well as arranging your tour and accommodation, we provide our clients – at no extra cost – a pretty comprehensive ‘bespoke’ guide to battlefields visited, complete with strategic and tactical background. Sir Alistair Horne, the late distinguished military historian, called them ‘all you need to know about what you’re seeing and why and how the battle was fought’. Both Tony and Nicky Bird have published books and (quite) learned articles, and have lectured. Some people pay to hear them; and have bought their books. The brochures illustrated here are a selection; they range from over 100 pages to less than 20, but are easily digestible and contain quirky information not usually found in guidebooks or histories. They can be referred to on your trip or enjoyed afterwards when the place names and layout of the battlefield make more sense.
The colour guides are A4 and are usually ring bound. They include such essential information as where you will lunch and dine. As such, some of the older itineraries can date (where hotels and restaurants fold), but the scholarship reflects modern reassessments. The WESTERN FRONT APPENDIX contains short entries on important matters like the rum ration; but also touches on those horrors of war – mud, rats and lice.
We can send a printed copy of a BIRD BATTLEFIELD TOURS itinerary. Please contact NICKY BIRD at nick@nickybirddesign.com for an estimate of printing and postage.
APPENDIX DEC 12 amended with correct numbering-1 ypres2007-1 YPRES SOMME TOUR FOR WINTERS OCT 17-20 2014-1 DICKENS, Major Cedric Charles YPRES SOMME OCTOBER 2011-1 YPRES SOMME 2014 MARK TAYLOR 2-1 YPRES WRITERS TOUR ITINERARY-1 Waterloo TOUR and VIEWPOINTS-1 VICKERS TOUR JULY 4-7 2015 VERDUN ITINERARY 2016 VENICE TOUR UPDATED OCT 2018-1 SOMME TOUR IN A DAY [from ALBERT] Bird Battlefield Tours D-DAY REVISITED DICKENS, Major Cedric Charles D-DAY REVISITED D-DAY REVISITED D-DAY REVISITED D-DAY REVISITED DICKENS, Major Cedric Charles MAXWELL TOUR ITINERARY 17-20 SEPT 2015 B-1 MACKIN TOUR MARCH 24-27 PLUS AMIENS The Battle of Loos: Sept 25-Oct13, 1915 leander full itinerary DICKENS, Major Cedric Charles HOLOCAUST TOUR 2006 GALLIPOLI TOUR Christmas Truce at St-Yvon Bird Battlefield Tours DUNKIRK CASSEL YPRES BATTLEFIELD TOUR ITINERARY 2107 B-1 DIEPPE RAID FINAL DEC 14-1 DICKINSON TOUR JUNE 2-5 2015 DICKENS, Major Cedric Charles D-DAY REVISITED D-DAY REVISITED D-DAY REVISITED CASSINO TOUR INC HOTELS ETC AND ITINERARY OF BATTLEFIELD TOUR c-1 CAPORETTO TOUR DEF.doc AMENDED MARCH 14.doc copy MARCH 21-1 CAMBERLEY CAMERA CLUB TOUR ITINERARY DOCUMENT Bruges / Waterloo itinerary TUES bomb comm itinerary june 15 Battle of the Bulge intro and itinerary MARCH 22-1 ARNHEM ITINERARY APRIL 15 AMERICAN CIVIL WAR TOUR MAY 17, 2022 APPENDIX TO THE GREAT WAR ARNHEM ITINERARY APRIL 15 – may 2019 BATTLE OF LE CATEAU ARTICLE bomb comm itinerary june 15 BOMBER COMMAND AND USAAF TOUR UPDATE BRUGES WATERLOO TOUR JUNE 2019 MARCH 9 CAPORETTO TOUR DEF.doc AMENDED MARCH 14.doc copy MARCH 21 D-DAY TOUR DEC 29 2020 DICKINSON TOUR JUNE 2-5 2015 – Copy DIEPPE RAID BROCHURE DUNKIRK CASSEL BATTLEFIELD TOUR ITINERARY APRIL 13 FALAISE NORMANDY TOUR FALAISE TOUR 2013 FOOTBALL TOUR OF THE WESTERN FRONT GALLIPOLI WILLOUGHBY TOUR MAY 10 HOLOCAUST TOUR 2006 updated Le Cateau presentation doc 2 (1) (2) leander full itinerary Leander Men DEFINITIVE NORMANDY TOUR MAY 16, 2022 [def] PIPER DEC 24 poetry tour itinerary ROME AND MONTE CASSINO ROME TOUR ARTICLE FOR HENLEY STANDARD SOMME TOUR IN A DAY The Battle of Loos The Battle of the Bulge LoC MAPS TITANIC STORY VENICE AND CAPORETTO VENICE TOUR UPDATED OCT 2018 VERDUN ITINERARY 2014 MARCH 9 VERDUN ITINERARY 2016 VICENZA ITINERARY UPDATED 2021 Waterloo TOUR and VIEWPOINTS WESTERN FRONT HOWSE TOUR APRIL 27-30 2020 WESTERN FRONT LEANDER CLUB TOUR WINE & WAR FOR WEB PDF YPRES SOMME TOUR APRIL 16-19 2019 – DEC 29 2020
