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We also have an expanded collection of WW2 tours some of which cover historical events around the end of the war and the aftermath of the Cold War.

Further afield we are pleased to introduce a brand new Vietnam tour covering the harrowing events of that long campaign.

Ian Henry, Chief Executive, Leger Holidays

Inspirational journeys of Remembrance and Discovery

Visiting battlefields from the two World Wars remains a fascinating, rewarding and moving experience. A century after WW1 and some 75 years since WW2, the debt we owe to those generations remains strong and the legacy of Remembrance they have left us prompts many who travel on our Battlefield Tours to ask more: who is the solider in that faded photo at home? What was that name on the local war memorial? What did grandad do, and how did his war fit into the bigger picture? Villy La Ferté 1940

These are just the sort of questions Passchendaele is a good example myself and my team of dedicated of this: think of this battle and one Specialist Battlefield Guides (see imagines a lunar landscape of page 6) get asked on a typical water-filled shell holes on a rain Leger Battlefield Tour. We are there soaked landscape. to help you decipher all the military Battlefield Tours teach us that the jargon and understand a past that experience of war like this was touched us all – so that we, too, about ordinary people in can continue with the legacy and extraordinary circumstances: that ensure the sacrifice and service are these men and women who served never forgotten. saw the best and worst of life as 2018 marks another special period carnage raged around them, and it of anniversaries for the First World was an experience that changed War, as it will be the centenary of them forever. the end of the war. These were On Battlefield Tours we discover some of the biggest, bloodiest that freedom is never free and the battles of the war and many have huge cemeteries bring that home in become not only household names, a way that is only possible on such but come to symbolise the war a tour. Since our first Battlefield itself in some ways. The Battle of Auschwitz-Birkenau

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World War 1 – 1914-18 see pages ...... 7 to 24

World War 2 – 1939-45 see pages ...... 25 to 47

Other Campaigns ...... 48 to 53 Anniversary Tours

NEW Somme to the Armistice 2018 ...... 11

Armistice Day in Flanders ...... 12

Armistice on the Somme ...... 12

Armistice in Mons ...... 13

NEW Kaiser’s Battle – Operation Paul Reed Michael ...... 14 NEW Centenary of ANZAC Head Battlefield Guide at Villers-Bretonneux ...... 15

I have had a life-long interest in military NEW Somme Advance to history, my father being a WW2 veteran Victory Centenary Tour ...... 16 and both my grandfathers serving in NEW Dambusters 75th WW1. I read history at University and went Anniversary Tour ...... 25 on to do a Masters. I began working as a Battlefield Guide in 1987 and joined Leger New for 2018/2019 for their first ever battlefield tour in April NEW First & Last Shots ...... 13 1997. When not working for Leger, I work as a Military Historian in television; NEW Itinerary for 2018 in the past few years I have worked on numerous documentaries for Walking the Somme ...... 21 BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5 relating to WW1 and WW2 including NEW Western Front Dig WW2 with Dan Snow and Heroes of the Somme . End to End ...... 22

Main de Massiges Trenches, Champagne NEW Following General Patton: Battlefield Tours in 1997 – some 20 years ago Luxembourg ...... 33 – we have established an unrivalled NEW Downfall in Berlin reputation for expert and by Air ...... 39 enthusiastic guides. Our aim is to ‘bring history alive’: for NEW The Rise of Evil: our team, guiding is not just Munich, Nuremberg a job, but a passion. & The Eagle’s Nest by Air ...... 41

Paul Reed, Head Battlefield Guide. NEW Anzio, Monte Cassino & San Pietro: Italian Campaign By Air ...... 45 With a choice of over 50 fully escorted tours exploring WW1, NEW Behind The Iron Curtain: WW2, and other historic battles, Spies and Espionage in step on to a Leger Battlefield Tour, the Cold War ...... 47 and step off into the footsteps of NEW Itinerary for 2018 heroes. At War with Wellington – The Peninsular War ...... 49

NEW Vietnam War ...... 51 Troops in Mons

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E Welcome to our new 2018/2019 Battlefield Tours Brochure W

World War 1 to start with if you are wanting to following the story of General WW2 armour, we have a broad We are now entering the final understand more about WW1. George S. Patton: one of the range of tours to interest the year of the WW1 Centenary and For 2018 we also have new walks most iconic commanders of the WW2 enthusiast and those will be focussing on the on the Somme; an excellent way conflict. We continue to visit all wanting to learn more. to see the ground. Looking ahead the key WW2 battlefields in importance of 1918, from the Remembering the to 2019, we will be introducing Europe, from D-Day to Germany, Kaiser’s Battle to the final Holocaust Advance to Victory, as well as new tours to cover the legacy and beyond, with new air tours to commemorative events for the and aftermath of WW1, as Munich and the Eagle’s Nest, We must never forget the centenary of the Armistice. We Remembrance must not stop Downfall in Berlin and also Anzio Holocaust and that dark chapter also bring back our popular with the end of the centenary. and Monte Cassino. Whether you of WW2 history. Understand it enjoy seeing WW2 more on our longer tour travelling Western Front End to End tour, World War 2 where we travel all 450 miles of megastructures or bunkers, want across Holocaust sites in Europe frontline, and our ever-popular All For 2018 we have several new to follow the Rise and Fall of or join our popular 5-day fly tour Quiet on the Western Front tour WW2 tours, including one looking Nazi Germany, to Poland, where you can visit remains the best battlefield tour at the war in Luxembourg and or look at tank warfare and see Auschwitz and Kraków.

LDEOPOW SIT SECURE The Somme Battlefields YOUR PLACE Low deposits Educational FROM JUST 3 For as little as £50 you can secure your next tour! When you book by 16th Battlefield Tours February 2018, you’ll only pay £50 per In 2015 Holts Tours became part of the Leger family. With almost 40 person to reserve your place on your years’ experience in operating Battlefield and History tours and more chosen coach tour* – see panel below. than 25 years in running School Travel, Holts Tours prides itself in Call or visit our website for full details. being the specialist in educational travel and the leading history and £ battlefield tours company. Working with Holts Tours, we pupils, parents and school. Some De50posits All deposits are per person Low Deposit* Full offer educational school visits, schools like to combine an art or trips and tours for school student cultural trip with leisure time, Coach Holidays up to 11 Days £50 £100 groups, in Europe, around the UK while on history and battlefield Coach Holidays of 12 Days and Over £50 £200 and overseas. Our range of trips tours, some schools prefer to covers art, culture, geography, visit a specific grave or war Air Holidays (Europe) - £150 science and language tours as cemetery and lay a wreath. Let us Air Holidays (Worldwide) - £300-500 † well as battlefields and history. know your requirements and we can build them into the itinerary. Eurostar £50 £100 All school tours can be tailor- made to suit the needs of your *Low Deposit applies to all 2018/19 departures booked by the 16th February 2018. In the event of your cancellation, the difference between the low deposit and the full deposit To find out more about our applicable to your tour will be payable – please see our Booking Conditions. †See tour pages for details. Educational Battlefields Tours, visit www.holts.co.uk

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Other Periods Executive With an unrivalled team of Executive – a modern and comfortable way to travel. Specialist Battlefield Guides, we also offer tours to the Battlefield of Waterloo, to walk the ground or Our executive coaches feature air-conditioning, drinks machine, see the annual re-enactment. In addition, we look at the struggle onboard toilet and reclining seats. On selected air holidays, the between Blue and Grey in the executive coach may not have an onboard toilet or drinks facilities. American Civil War as well as following Wellington in Spain and examining the Boer and Zulu Wars in South Africa, and new for early 2019, we offer a tour to take Silver Service in the conflict in Vietnam. Silver Service continues to be extremely popular with our customers, here’s why... Exclusive to Leger Holidays

Comfort... Convenience... Entertainment... 3 Specially-designed reclining 3 Servery on board offering 3 Time flies with our onboard seats with leather headrests, a range of refreshments. entertainment system. footrests and more legroom 3 Personal tables. 3 With free personal headphones than Executive coaches. 3 Porterage at all hotels. you can tune into the music The British 3 Travel Awards Onboard climate control channel, listen to the radio or 3 The option to pay for your Awarded Best will ensure the temperature watch DVDs being played by Medium Coach optional excursions using a remains comfortable your crew. Holiday Company GBP credit or debit card for the last 2 years throughout your journey. during your tour. 3 Socialise and relax in the spacious rear lounge.

95% of our customers love our holidays and service Luxuria Luxuria – the ultimate level of comfort for your escorted Battlefields tour.

Young Adults Discount Exclusive SAVE 50% to Leger Holidays Many young adults travel on school visits to the battlefields but sharing historical experiences with all generations of a family can be rewarding. To Comfort... Convenience... help families travel together we 3 Deluxe armchair-style seats 3 U.K. plug sockets and USB are pleased to offer a 50% with adjustable head rests, points at each seat mean you discount on selected tours to central arm rests with cup can keep your devices fully Young Adults aged 8-17 when holders and retractable calf charged at all times. travelling with another adult. rests give you a more See tour pages for details Entertainment... comfortable journey. 3 Every seat has its own, fully 3 As part of Luxuria’s unique interactive, touch screen T.V. layout there will be up to 5 offering a wide choice of To take a 360 o virtual tour of individual seats available, likely entertainment so you can Luxuria and Silver Service visit... to be very popular with single control what you want to watch travellers and those who enjoy and when (see website for http://ity.vc/Silv360 their own personal space. more details). or http://ity.vc/luxuria360 Educational visit

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All of Leger’s battlefield tours are accompanied by specialist guides. Their individual in-depth knowledge of warfare will be informative, as well as Paul Reed Gary Ashley Jonathon Ball enhance your overall experience, as they recreate Our Head Battlefields Lifelong collector with Lifelong interest in a fascinating perception of the history and factual Guide with a life-long an interest in military WW1/WW2 and interest in military history from Roman specialises in Arnhem events of each battle. history, Paul has times to modern day. and Operation Market worked on numerous Lives in Northern Garden as well as T.V. documentaries. France. Dunkirk.

Scott Brand Tony Carr Niall Cherry Charlotte Czyzyk Paul Errington Fred Greenhow MBE Interest in WW1 and Lifelong enthusiast Former Airborne Works at IWM North Former Gunner and Retired from the Royal WW2, especially and collector, he has a Medic, he is an and first visited Police Officer, he has Artillery having served Arnhem as his father remarkable knowledge Arnhem specialist battlefields with her an impressive in the Falklands. fought there. Served in of WW1 and WW2 and author, and guides grandfather, a D-Day knowledge of the Specialises in WW2 Australian Army, also battlefields. both WW1 and WW2 veteran. Specialises in German Army in WW2 including Normandy guides Vietnam tours. tours. the Holocaust. and Tank Warfare. and the Holocaust.

Bob Hilton Ian Hodkinson Marc Hope Kevin Little David McCormack Iain McHenry Former soldier who Former RAF serviceman, Former soldier with a Visiting WW1 Historian and author, Formerly with the Royal served in the with interest in WW1 passion for WW1 and battlefields for over 30 specialising in the Military Police, he Falklands, he has and WW2. Currently WW2, has been visiting years inspired by his history of the Holocaust has written about written his first book specialising in WW1 battlefields for over 20 family who fought at and the Rise and Fall of underground warfare on Arnhem and guides and Italian Campaign years and been guiding Ypres and the Somme. the Third Reich. and works as a WW2 tours. for WW2. with Leger since 2006. Specialises in WW1. battlefield archaeologist.

Bill McQuade Colin Parslow Vic Piuk Paul Prendergast Keith Quibell Carl Shilleto Served in Berlin with Former service as an Former journalist, he Having worked for the Served as a Police Author with specialism Royal Scots Greys and infantry officer and lives on the Somme Post Office, he has a Officer and used to take in the Normandy guides a wide variety extensive experience and specialises in passion for WW1 and WW1 veterans across Campaign. He has been of battlefield tours as a Battlefield Guide WW1, especially war has researched the to the battlefields. He guiding D-Day tours from Waterloo to with the Royal British poetry. Author of Post Office Rifles. has guided WW1 tours since 1998 and has Cold War. Legion. several books. for over 15 years. written many books.

Norman Sibbald Peter Smith Tim Thurlow David Warren Peter Williams Jon Wort Retired Engineer, he Former RAF and Police Former Police Officer Authority in many After working in adult Served an Army officer, guides WW2 tours Officer, he has been with life-long interest in fields of military education, Peter has he specialises in WW1 with a passion for visiting battlefields for WW1, especially the history and specialist been guiding for Leger and WW2, and also the Commando over 30 years with Somme battlefields, in the Peninsular War, for over 15 years. Burma Campaign. Operations and the specialism in WW1 which he has visited Waterloo and Dunkirk Specialises in WW1 Former Royal British Air War over Europe. and WW2. for over 30 years. and Maginot Line. and Maginot Line. Legion Guide.

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Flanders Fields – Britain’s Bastion 4 days W W on the Western Front from £399 pp Tour Includes 3 3 nights hotel with continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key visits 3 Trenches at Zonnebeke Flanders Field Museum 3 Tyne Cot visit the smallest British cemeteries From our base in Ypres we cover the main British 3 Menin Gate in Flanders, before looking at the battlefront in the First World War. 3 story of the Christmas Truce. Hill 60 a visit to Tyne Cot; the largest Day 1 Local departure by coach We end on Kemmel Hill, overlooking 3 Ploegsteert Memorial British Cemetery in the world. then to Ypres in Belgium for Flanders. B a three-night stay. We end the day at Frezenberg and Day 4 Return home. B Day 2 In Flanders Fields the Scottish Memorial. B Included Meals: B=Breakfast Museum; Ypres We start our tour Day 3 Passchendaele; Executive Tour Code: 4BFY at the In Flanders Fields Museum in Messines Ridge Today, we start For full tour details visit May 25 2018 £399 Sep 14 2018 £399 Ypres. We then walk down to the at Hill 60, with evidence of the www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bfy Jul 20 2018 £399 May 24 2019 £399 Menin Gate and see the Ramparts ‘underground war’ and then visit the Aug 24 2018 £399 of Ypres. After lunch at Hooge we Passchendaele Museum with its Your Hotel visit Yorkshire Trench, and then see system of re-created trenches. After Silver Service Tour Code: 4BFYV You will stay for three nights at where the ‘Last Fighting Tommy’, lunch, we travel to the Messines Oct 25 2018 £429 Apr 5 2019 £439 the 3-star Novotel in the centre of Harry Patch, fought in 1917, seeing Ridge, visiting the preserved craters Entrance to museums and Ypres, near the Menin Gate and his memorial. At Langemarck we at St. Eloi and Spanbroekmoelen. places of interest are at extra cost. the Market Square. The hotel has look at the German dead in At Bayernwald we see a German Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance a lift, bar and restaurant. essential, call for details; single room supplement Flanders and contrast this with trench system, and in Messines we from £109. 1

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Tour Includes 3 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key visits The Old Contemptibles 1914 3 Casteau 3 Nimy Bridge Join us as we travel through Belgium and France following the Old 3 Mons War Museum 3 Contemptibles – the regular army who fought some of the first battles of St. Symphorien Cemetery the war at Mons, Le Cateau and Ypres. Your Hotel You will stay for four nights at the Day 1 Local departure by coach cavalry charge in 1914. B seeing 1914 burials. We then visit 3-star Novotel in the centre of then to our hotel in Ypres, Belgium Day 3 Retreat From Mons – the In Flanders Fields Museum. for a four-night stay. Battle of Le Cateau We start at After lunch at Hooge we see Ypres, just a few minutes walk to Day 2 Mons: First Shots – War the Mons War Museum and then Zillebeke Churchyard. In Messines the Menin Gate, Market Square Horses at Audregnies We start follow the Retreat from Mons down we see the visitor’s centre and and In Flanders Fields Museum. with the Battle of Mons and see to Le Cateau. We look at Landrecies original church crypt ending with the story of the Christmas Truce where the first shots were fired in and see the Suffolk Regiment Silver Service Tour Code: 5BCTV near Prowse Point. B 1914. At Nimy Bridge we look at the memorial. Later we visit Le Cateau May 14 2018 £539 May 13 2019 £559 B B first Victoria Crosses of WW1. After Cemetery and also Esnes. Day 5 Return home. Aug 27 2018 £539 lunch we travel to St. Symphorien Included Meals: B=Breakfast Day 4 Ypres: Death of an Army Entrance to museums and Cemetery where the first and last – In Flanders Fields Museum For full tour details visit places of interest are at extra cost. casualties of WW1 are buried. We start at the Menin Gate and www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bct Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance We end at Audregnies, scene of a essential, call for details; single room supplement walk to the Ypres town cemetery, from £139.

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More than 750,000 British soldiers were killed on the Western Front during the Great War. During this Centenary period, join us on this introductory tour visiting the major battlefields of Flanders and France.

4-Day Tour WW1 trenches still surviving in trenches in the Newfoundland Park scene of the first major British Day 1 Local departure by coach, Flanders together with an amazing and then take time to visit the offensive of WW1, we see where the then to our hotel in Belgium or collection of relics and stereoscopic Thiepval Memorial to the Missing fighting took place and also the northern France, where we stay for photos. We then travel down the and see the new Somme Museum Loos Memorial and Dud Corner three nights. Messines Ridge to Ploegsteert to here. B Cemetery. We then visit the see the Ploegsteert Memorial to Day 4 Return home. B excellent new Lens 14-18 Museum Day 2 Ypres & Passchendaele the Missing. Our day ends in Ypres which explains the rich history of The tour starts in Flanders around Included Meals: B=Breakfast where we attend the moving Last this region. After lunch in Arras we the Belgian city of Ypres. Here, one Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate For full tour details visit look at life beneath the Western in three of Britain’s Western Front Memorial, held at 8pm each www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bwf Front in the Wellington Quarries, dead fell by 1918 and it has been a evening. B going underground to see where place of pilgrimage ever since. 5-Day Tour thousands sheltered on the eve of We begin by looking at the Day 3 The Somme The Battle of Day 1 Local departure by coach, battle. At the Arras Memorial we commemoration of Britain’s dead the Somme began on a summer’s then to our hotel in Belgium or pay our respects to the Missing and at Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest day in July 1916 and ended in a northern France, where we stay for see the Air Services Memorial to British war cemetery in the world, snowstorm four and a half months four nights. those who died above the battlefield taking time to also see the visitors’ later. It was a battle of contrasts Day 2 Ypres & Passchendaele in WW1 and end our day with a visit centre. At Vancouver Corner we from the blackest day when 57,000 As per day 2 of the 4-day itinerary. B to the stunning Vimy Ridge examine the use of gas in the became casualties to the first use memorial at Hill 145 to examine the trenches and see the moving of tanks and the change in Day 3 The Somme As per day attack by Canadian forces here in ‘Brooding Soldier’ memorial to the approach to fighting on the Western 3 of the 4-day itinerary. B April 1917. B Canadians who defended Ypres in Front. We look at all these stories Day 4 Arras & Vimy Ridge 1915 and at Langemarck German and start our tour at Peronne where We spend a day in northern France Day 5 Return home. B Cemetery we see how Germany we visit the excellent Historial de la visiting the ‘Forgotten Front’ Included Meals: B=Breakfast commemorated her dead and look Grande Guerre museum which between Flanders and the Somme. For full tour details visit at the story of ‘Fritz’ on the other helps to put into context not just Starting on the Loos Battlefield, the www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bwf side of No Man’s Land. After lunch our Somme day, but the whole tour. at Hooge, we visit the preserved We then see the Lochnagar Mine trenches at Sanctuary Wood Trench Crater at La Boisselle, the largest Museum, some of the last original British mine crater surviving on the battlefields. After lunch we see the

Tyne Cot Cemetery Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate

8 Call or visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk for full details 8 & 9 All Quiet on the Western Front.qxp_Layout 1 22/01/2018 16:58 Page 2 1 from pp 4 days £319 Prefer to travel 4 days W W 5 days from £399 pp by Eurostar? from £489 pp Tour Includes 3 3 or 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key Visits 3 Tyne Cot 3 Menin Gate 3 Ploegsteert Memorial 3 Ypres 3 Last Post Ceremony 3 Thiepval Memorial 4-Day Tour Executive Tour Code: 4BWF Young Adults Discount Mar 30 2018 £329 Aug 24* 2018 £339 Save 50% Apr 20 2018 £349 Aug 31 2018 £339 (aged 8-17) on dates marked* May 25 2018 £349 Sep 14 2018 £339 May 31 2018 £349 Oct 5 2018 £319 Loos Memorial Jun 15 2018 £349 Mar 29 2019 £339 Your Hotel Jun 22 2018 £349 Apr 19 2019 £359 Travel by Eurostar from Tour Includes Jul 20* 2018 £329 May 24 2019 £359 London St. Pancras then 3 3 nights hotel with Executive coach departures will Jul 27* 2018 £329 spend two full days touring the continental breakfast stay for three or four nights at the Silver Service Tour Code: 4BWFV battlefields of Flanders and the 4-star Best Western Ambassador 3 Return travel by Eurostar™ Feb 15 2018 £339 Jun 15 2018 £399 Somme on a deluxe Silver in Menen. The hotel has a bar 3 Mar 8 2018 £359 Oct 25* 2018 £379 Service coach before returning Specialist Battlefield Guide and lift. Mar 30* 2018 £389 Feb 14* 2019 £359 to the U.K. by Eurostar. 3 Battlefield visits as described Silver Service and Luxuria Apr 6* 2018 £389 Mar 7 2019 £379 departures will stay for three or Apr 27 2018 £389 Apr 12 2019 £399 Day 1 Lunchtime departure by Key Visits four nights at the 4-star Best May 4 2018 £399 Eurostar from London St. Pancras 3 Tyne Cot Western Hotel Alize in Mouscron. to Lille then transfer to our hotel in Luxuria Tour Code: 4 BWFX 3 Ypres The hotel does not have a Belgium for a three-night stay. Feb 15* 2018 £399 Nov 3 2018 £419 3 Sanctuary Wood restaurant, but snacks are Mar 8 2018 £399 Mar 7 2018 £419 Day 2 Ypres & Passchendaele 3 available from the bar. There are Menin Gate As per day 2 of the 4-day coach 3 also a number of restaurants and 5-Day Tour Ploegsteert Memorial itinerary. B bars nearby. The hotel has a lift. Executive Tour Code: 5BWF 3 Last Post Ceremony Day 3 The Somme As per day 3 When demand is high on Mar 26 2018 £399 Aug 13* 2018 £409 Thiepval Memorial 3 of the 4-day coach itinerary. B 3 executive, Silver Service and Apr 16 2018 £409 Oct 1 2018 £399 Newfoundland Park Luxuria departures, other hotels May 28* 2018 £409 Oct 22 2018 £399 Day 4 Return home, via Eurostar to 3 Peronne of a similar 3 and 4-star standard Jul 16 2018 £409 Mar 25 2019 £409 London St. Pancras. B 3 La Boisselle Included Meals: B=Breakfast may be used, such as the 3-star Silver Service Tour Code: 5BWFV Your Hotel Hotel Des Acacias Lille Tourcoing Feb 12* 2018 £429 Jun 18 2018 £489 For full tour details visit in Neuville en Ferrain, Best You will stay for three nights at Mar 5 2018 £439 Jul 2 2018 £489 www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/ebwf Western Plus Casteau in Mons Mar 19 2018 £445 Jul 16 2018 £489 the 4-star Best Western Hotel and the 3-star Best Western Mar 26 2018 £455 Jul 30 2018 £489 Alize in Mouscron. The hotel Hotel Horizon Ath Lessines. Apr 2* 2018 £469 Aug 27* 2018 £489 does not have a restaurant, but 3-star Novotel Ypres On selected Apr 9 2018 £479 Sep 3 2018 £489 snacks are available from the bar. dates you can choose to stay in Apr 16 2018 £479 Sep 17 2018 £489 There are also a number of central Ypres, just a few hundred Apr 23 2018 £479 Oct 8 2018 £479 restaurants and bars nearby. yards from the Menin Gate at the Apr 30 2018 £479 Oct 22* 2018 £479 3-star Novotel. The hotel has a lift May 7 2018 £479 Feb 11* 2019 £449 By Eurostar & Executive and bar. May 21 2018 £479 Mar 25 2019 £459 Tour Code: E4BWF May 28 2018 £479 Apr 22 2019 £489 Jun 22 2018 £499 Aug 31 2018 £489 Jun 11 2018 £489 By Eurostar & Silver Service Silver Service & Novotel Ypres Tour Code: E4BWFV Tour Code: 5BWFHV Mar 8 2018 £529 Oct 25 2018 £539 Apr 30 2018 £569 Sep 10 2018 £559 Apr 13 2018 £549 Mar 7 2019 £519 Jul 9 2018 £559 Oct 15 2018 £549 Apr 27 2018 £549 Apr 12 2019 £549 Thiepval Memorial Aug 13 2018 £559 May 20 2019 £569 May 4 2018 £559 Apr 26 2019 £559 Entrance to museums and Luxuria Tour Code: 5 BWFX places of interest are at extra cost. Entrance to museums and Apr 2 2018 £549 Apr 1 2019 £559 places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Jul 9 2018 £569 Jun 3 2019 £579 Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement from £99; (4 days), £119 (5 days), Oct 29 2018 £539 TM £139 (5 days Novotel Ypres). Eurostar from £99; Eurostar seat supplements may apply.

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W 5 days W They Called It Passchendaele from £499 pp

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Messines Ridge: remains of one of the great mine craters

One of the iconic battles of World War 1, join us on a journey of discovery, Tour Includes visiting the battlefields of the significant Battle of Passchendaele. 3 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast Day 1 Local departure by coach, We remember the contribution of At Tyne Cot we visit the largest 3 then to Ypres for a four-night stay. Irish soldiers at the Irish Peace British military cemetery in the Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Day 2 Messines & Ploegsteert Tower and visit the southern area of world and end on the Frezenberg Battlefield visits as described Today we look at the Battle of the battlefield around Ploegsteert Ridge. B 3 FREE local joining points Messines in June 1917 when ('Plugstreet') including the Day 4 Passchendaele (see page 55 for your nearest) British and Commonwealth Ploegsteert Memorial. B & Poperinghe The Third Battle tunnellers exploded nineteen mines Day 3 Pilkem Ridge & Tyne Cot of Ypres ended with the capture of Key Visits under positions along the Messines Following Messines, the Third Passchendaele and today we start 3 Hill 60 Ridge. We start at Hill 60 where two Battle of Ypres began on 31st July at the Canadian memorial at Crest 3 Menin Gate 1917 and we begin at Buffs Road Farm before going into the village mines were blown, seeing the 3 St. Eloi Crater impressive Caterpillar Crater. At Cemetery, close to the start line. We to see the memorial in the church. 3 Spanbroekmolen Mine Crater St. Eloi we visit the crater formed by then travel to the Pilkem Ridge to We then take time to visit the 3 Hooge Crater the largest mine from 1917 and at look at the story of war poets Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres 3 New Zealand Memorial Park Wytschaete visit the Tunnellers Francis Ledwidge and Hedd Wynn, and after lunch look at life behind 3 Memorial. At Spanbroekmolen mine also seeing the Welsh Memorial. the lines, seeing Lijssenthoek Irish Peace Tower 3 crater we examine the story of the At Langemarck we see the Military Cemetery, before going to Ploegsteert Memorial Ulster troops who attacked here memorial to Harry Patch, the ‘Last Talbot House in Poperinghe. We 3 Passchendaele Memorial and also visiting the Lone Tree Fighting Tommy’ and at Poelcapelle then look at the story of men ‘Shot Museum Crater Cemetery. After lunch at examine the use of tanks during at Dawn’ at the Death Cells, and at 3 Tyne Cot Cemetery Hooge Crater we travel along the Third Ypres, seeing the tank Brandhoek the grave of medical 3 Frezenberg Ridge Messines Ridge to Messines itself, memorial. After lunch we visit the officer Noel Chavasse VC & Bar. We 3 Talbot House superb Passchendaele Memorial end the day in Ypres for the Last seeing the visitors centre, visiting 3 In Flanders Fields Museum the New Zealand Memorial, and Museum at Zonnebeke, exploring Post at the Menin Gate. B seeing German front line bunkers. their reconstructed trench system. Day 5 Return home. B Included Meals: B=Breakfast For full tour details visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bym

Your Hotel Silver Service Tour Code: 5BYMV You will stay for four nights at the Jun 25 2018 £529 Oct 22 2018 £499 3-star Novotel Ypres. This Jul 16 2018 £529 May 6 2019 £539 excellent hotel is located in the Jul 30 2018 £539 Jun 24 2019 £549 heart of historic town of Ypres, Oct 1 2018 £529 only a couple of minutes' walk Luxuria Tour Code: 5BYMX from the Menin Gate Memorial, where the 'Last Post' is sounded Aug 20 2018 £599 every evening. The hotel has a Entrance to museums and small bar area. places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Hooge Crater Museum from £139.

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Tour Includes w 8 1 e 0 3 4 nights hotel with N 2 r continental breakfast fo 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key Visits 3 Villers-Bretonneux 3 Le Hamel 3 Bourlon Wood 3 Cambrai 3 St. Symphorien Cemetery 3 Mons 3 Ors Your Hotel You will stay for four nights at the 3-star Ibis Styles Peronne Assevillers Hotel. The hotel has a Ricqueval Bridge 1918 restaurant and bar, and is situated approximately six miles The Last 100 Days of the First World War began on 8th August 1918 when from the centre of Peronne. British and Commonwealth troops broke the German lines on the Somme in Germany’s ‘Black Day of the War’. On this new tour we follow the final advance Young Adults Discount from the Somme to Mons where the last shots were fired. Save 50% (aged 8-17) on dates marked* Day 1 Local departure by coach, of a Canadian First Nation sniper, North Midland Division broke the then to Assevillers, near Peronne Ducky Norwest. B German defences and took the last for a four-night stay. Day 3 Monchy le Preux; bridge over the canal. B Silver Service Tour Code: 5FSTV May 14 2018 £519 Aug 13* 2018 £519 Day 2 Villers-Bretonneux; Cambrai; St. Quentin Today, Day 4 Ors; Mons Jul 16 2018 £519 Sep 17 2018 £519 Le Hamel We start the tour on the we begin near Arras and follow the At Ors we look at the final large- Jul 30 2018 £499 battlefields around Villers- Canadian advance in August- scale battle of WW1 on the Western Bretonneux, where the German September 1918 as they attacked Front along the Sambre Canal, Entrance to museums and advance was stopped in April 1918 the Drocourt-Queant Switch Line. where on 4th November 1918, places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance and where the break-out began in We visit the ground at Monchy le more than 150,000 troops went into essential, call for details; single room supplement August. We visit the Villers- Preux, see the Crow’s Nest battle. At Ors we see where war from £119. Bretonneux Military Cemetery and Memorial and the DQ Line Canadian poet Wilfred Owen was killed, and new Monash Centre (which opens Memorial. At Bourlon Wood, we see visit his memorial and grave in Ors killed – the last British Empire in spring 2018), as well as the where the Canadians captured the Communal Cemetery. We then soldier to die in WW1 – and visit his Australian Corps Memorial Park at wood in September 1918, and after travel to Mons for lunch, and in the memorial. B lunch in Cambrai, we look at the afternoon, see the Mons War Le Hamel with its memorial and Day 5 Return home. B trenches. In the afternoon, we fighting along the St. Quentin Canal, Museum and St. Symphorien Included Meals: B=Breakfast follow the August 1918 advance, seeing the Somme American Cemetery, where the first and last seeing the moving War Horse Cemetery at Bony and the bridge soldiers are buried. We also see For full tour details visit Memorial at Chipilly and the grave at Ricqueval where the men of the where George Lawrence Price was www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/fst

George Lawrence Price Memorial, Mons Somme American Cemetery

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W 4 days W Armistice Day in Flanders from £369 pp

Tour Includes 3 3 nights hotel with continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key Visits 3 Tyne Cot Cemetery Menin Gate 3 Tyne Cot Cemetery On this battlefield tour, join one of our specialist battlefield guides 3 Hooge Crater Museum as we commemorate Armistice Day in Flanders. 3 Messines Ridge Nov 9 Local departure by coach, Nov 10 & 11 Ypres and Ploegsteert Memorial. 2xB then to our hotel in Belgium or In the company of our specialist Nov 12 Return home. B northern France, where we stay for guide, we explore the battlefields Included Meals: B=Breakfast three nights. around Ypres. We will attend commemorative events on 11th For full tour details visit November 2018, including a special www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bfa Last Post at the Menin Gate and Executive Tour Code: 4BFA annual commemoration parade in Nov 9 2018 £369 the main square. We will also have a day looking at the sacred ground Your Hotel Silver Service Tour Code: 4BFAV around Ypres, where more than You will stay for three nights at a Nov 9 2018 £419 250,000 British and minimum 3-star hotel in Belgium Entrance to museums and Commonwealth soldiers fell, or northern France. Full details of places of interest are at extra cost. including visits to Tyne Cot, Hooge your hotel will be advised with Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance your travel documents. essential, call for details; single room supplement Menin Gate Memorial Crater Museum, Messines Ridge from £99. 1

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W Armistice on the Somme from £369 pp

Tour Includes 3 3 nights hotel with continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key Visits Ulster Tower, Somme 3 Peronne 3 Delville Wood Join one of our specialist guides, as we commemorate Armistice Day 3 Lochnagar Crater 3 on the Somme. Newfoundland Park Trenches Nov 9 Local departure by coach, battlefields and attend the Nov 12 Return home. B then to our hotel in northern France Remembrance Sunday Included Meals: B=Breakfast or Belgium, where we stay for three commemorations at the Thiepval nights. Memorial, organised by the Royal For full tour details visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bsa Nov 10 & 11 Ypres British Legion on November 11th In the company of our specialist 2018. We also visit some key Delville Wood Somme sites on this day, including Your Hotel guide we explore the Somme Executive Tour Code: 4BSA the battlefield at Serre and You will stay for three nights at a Nov 9 2018 £369 Gommecourt. We will also have a minimum 3-star hotel in northern day visiting locations on the France or Belgium. Full details of Silver Service Tour Code: 4BSAV Somme including the Historial your hotel will be advised with Nov 9 2018 £419 Museum at Peronne, Delville Wood, your travel documents. Lochnagar Crater, and the Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. preserved trenches in the Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance 2xB Thiepval Memorial Newfoundland Park. essential, call for details; single room supplement from £99.

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4 days W Armistice in Mons W from £349 pp

Tour Includes 3 3 nights hotel with continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key Visits 3 Troops in Mons Mons Memorial 3 St. Symphorien Cemetery Join us as we commemorate Armistice Day in Mons on this battlefield tour, visiting St. Symphorien Military Cemetery & Mons Memorial Museum. Your Hotel You will stay for three nights at a Nov 9 Local departure by coach, the Mons Military Museum. 2xB For full tour details visit minimum 3-star hotel in Belgium, then to our hotel in Belgium for a Return home. B www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bma Nov 12 such as the Best Western Hotel three-night stay. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance Included Meals: B=Breakfast essential, call for details; single room supplement Horizon Ath Lessines, near Nov 10 & 11 Mons from £99. Ghislenghien or the Best Western This tour explores the Mons Plus Hotel Casteau Resort Mons. battlefield area, on 11th November Full details will be advised with we attend commemorative services your travel documents. or events in the Mons area (details of these are yet to be announced). Executive Tour Code: 4BMA We spend 10th November exploring Nov 9 2018 £349 the St. Symphorien Military Cemetery where the last British Silver Service Tour Code: 4BMAV casualties of WW1 on the Western Nov 9 2018 £399 Front are buried, the memorial to Entrance to museums and George Lawrence Price, as well as Memorial at Mons places of interest are at extra cost. 1

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First & Last Shots W from £329 pp

Tour Includes w 8 1 e 0 3 N 2 3 nights hotel with r fo continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key Visits St. Symphorien Cemetery 3 Mons War Museum The city of Mons in Belgium was where the first and last shots of the war were 3 St. Symphorien Cemetery fired by the British, and where the first and last soldiers died. Your Hotel Local departure by coach, Victoria Crosses were awarded. In in November 1918. After lunch we Day 1 You will stay for three nights at then to our hotel in Mons, Belgium, Mons we see the memorials at the visit the Memorial to George the 3-star Best Western Plus where we stay for three nights. Town Hall before going to the Lawrence Price, the last British Hotel Casteau Resort Mons. Day 2 First & Last Shots battlefield to Elouges. We also see Empire casualty on 11th November Memorials; Mons We start our where British cavalry attacked at 1918. We end the tour tour at Casteau, just outside Mons, Audregnies, resulting in the award at the moving and impressive close to the spot where the first of two Victoria Crosses. B St. Symphorien Cemetery, which Executive Tour Code: 4BML contains the graves of the first and shots of the British Army were fired Day 3 Mons War Museum; May 31 2018 £329 Sep 14 2018 £339 on the Western Front. Opposite we St. Symphorien Cemetery last casualties. B visit a Canadian memorial on the Today we begin at the Mons War Day 4 Return home. B Silver Service Tour Code: 4BMLV site of their final advance on 11th Museum, an excellent museum Included Meals: B=Breakfast Apr 6 2018 £369 November 1918. From here, we which explains the role of Mons in For full tour details visit Entrance to museums and move on to the Battle of Mons in conflict over many centuries. places of interest are at extra cost. www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bml 1914 and see the battlefield around We then look at the areas where Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance Nimy Bridge where the first two fighting took place around the city essential, call for details; single room supplement from £99.

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The Lancaster Bomber

German Stormtroopers

On 21st March 1918 the Germans launched Operation Michael, or the Tour Includes Kaiserschlacht as it became known: the Kaiser’s Battle. German troops 3 4 nights hotel with attacked from near Cambrai to south of St. Quentin. On the centenary of continental breakfast this battle we visit the ground and remember events from 1918. 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Mar 19 Local departure by coach, ceremony in the area. We will also Mar 23 Return home. B Battlefield visits as described 3 then to our hotel in northern France visit both the Arras and Pozières Included Meals: B=Breakfast FREE local joining points or Belgium, where we stay for four Memorials, which commemorate (see page 55 for your nearest) nights. those who died in March 1918, as For full tour details visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/fkb Key Visits Mar 20 Manchester Hill and well as the Historial Museum at Vadencourt Today we start on Peronne. B 3 Manchester Hill the March 1918 battlefields near Mar 22 Epehy and Villers- 3 Pozières Memorial St. Quentin seeing some of the key Bretonneux We return to the 3 Villers-Bretonneux locations connected with the Somme battlefields and look at the 3 Arras Memorial fighting here including Grand- continued advance of the German Seraucourt British Cemetery, troops in March-April 1918 visiting Your Hotel Manchester Hill, Savy, Holnon Fins, Epehy, Villers-Guislan and You will stay for four nights at a Wood, Vadencourt British Cemetery Gauche Wood. After lunch we look minimum 3-star hotel in Belgium and Ham. B at the conclusion of the battle or northern France. Full details of Mar 21 Arras and Pozières around Villers-Bretonneux in April your hotel will be advised with We will hold a short private 1918, seeing where Australian and your travel documents. ceremony on the battlefield or, British troops brought the German if possible, attend an official advance to an end. B Villers-Bretonneux

Arras Memorial

Silver Service Tour Code: 5FKBV Mar 19 2018 £429

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The Lancaster Bomber

Villers-Bretonneux

On ANZAC Day 1918 Australian and British troops brought the German Tour Includes offensive on the Somme to an end near the village of Villers-Bretonneux. 3 4 nights hotel with We attend the centenary of this battle and attend the commemorative events. continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide Apr 23 Local departure by coach, Apr 25 ANZAC Day 3 then to our hotel in northern France At the time of going to print, details Battlefield visits as described or Belgium, where we stay for four of the main event on 25th April 3 FREE local joining points nights. 2018 have not been announced, but (see page 55 for your nearest) it will include attendance at the Apr 24 Fromelles and Flanders Key Visits Today, we will spend a day at Dawn Service at Villers-Bretonneux, Australians in WW1 Fromelles and Ypres visiting key requiring an early start, and access 3 Fromelles to the new Monash Centre Museum Australian battlefield sites including follow the advance in 1918 to the 3 Polygon Wood being built on the site. We will also VC Corner, Fromelles Museum and last Australian battlefield at 3 Pozières visit the area around Villers- Pheasant Wood Cemetery, as well Montbrehain. B 3 Villers-Bretonneux as the Messines Ridge, Polygon Bretonneux. B Apr 27 Return home. B Wood, Tyne Cot and attendance at Apr 26 Somme & Montbrehain Your Hotel Included Meals: B=Breakfast the Last Post Ceremony at the Today we will look at Australian You will stay for four nights at a Menin Gate. B sites on the Somme including For full tour details visit minimum 3-star hotel in Belgium Pozières and Mouquet Farm, and www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/faz or northern France. Full details of your hotel will be advised with your travel documents.

Fromelles

Silver Service Tour Code: 5FAZV Apr 23 2018 £439

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W Somme Advance to 5 days W Victory Centenary Tour from £399 pp Tour Includes w 8 1 e 0 3 4 nights hotel with N 2 r continental breakfast fo 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key Visits 3 Villers-Bretonneux Villers-Bretonneux 3 American Somme Cemetery The Battle of Amiens on 8th August 1918 was when the Allies broke German 3 Mons defences on the Somme, heralding the last one hundred days of WW1. Your Hotel new Monash Centre at Villers- seeing the famous bridge at Aug 6 Local departure by coach, You will stay for four nights at a Bretonneux. B Ricqueval, captured in the Breaking then to our hotel in northern France minimum 3-star hotel in Belgium of the Hindenburg Line. We or Belgium, where we stay for four Aug 8 Anniversary Ceremony or northern France. Full details of examine the Battle of the Sambre nights. On 8th August we attend main your hotel will be advised with Canal, and end in Mons where the Aug 7 Villers-Bretonneux ceremonies in the Somme area: the your travel documents. DCMS has provisionally announced war came to an end on 11th We begin with the Second Battle of Executive Tour Code: 5FSD the Somme in 1918, from the an event at Amiens, which may November 1918, seeing where the Aug 6 2018 £399 fighting around Villers-Bretonneux require a balloted ticket. B first and last casualties are buried. B in April 1918, to the Australian Aug 9 Ricqueval; Battle of the Aug 10 Return home. B Silver Service Tour Code: 5FSDV attack on Le Hamel in July, and the Sambre Canal Today we look Included Meals: B=Breakfast Aug 6 2018 £449 British and Commonwealth beyond the breakout to the last 100 For full tour details visit Entrance to museums and advance on 8th August 1918, days of the conflict, starting at places of interest are at extra cost. www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/fsd visiting memorials and battlefield Bourlon Wood, then visiting the Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance cemeteries. We will also visit the essential, call for details; single room supplement American Somme Cemetery before from £109. 1

W Tunnellers on the Western Front – 4 days W The Underground War from £339 pp Tour Includes 3 3 nights hotel with continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key Visits Writing on the wall left by soldiers 3 Hill 60 3 Kemmel 3 Ypres 3 Come with us beneath the Western Front as we go underground to learn what Caves at Bouzencourt 3 3 life was like and have special access to tunnels rarely opened to the public. Thiepval Messines Ridge Day 1 Local departure by coach, Grave. We then travel down the drawings and carvings made into Your Hotel then to Belgium for a three-night Messines Ridge, scene of the ‘big the chalk walls: a unique visit. After Executive coach departures will stay. bang’ in June 1917 and see the lunch we visit the tunnellers’ graves stay for three nights at the Day 2 Flanders We begin in Spanbroekmolen and Peckham at Becourt, look at the story of the 4-star Best Western Hotel Alize in Flanders where tunnelling for the craters. At Kemmel we consider the Livens Flame Projector, and visit the Mouscron. Silver Service British Army began in 1915. At Hill fate of trapped miners and end the scene of the Hawthorn Mine at departure will stay at the 4-star 60, we learn the story of the day in Ypres for the Last Post Beaumont- Hamel. B Best Western Hotel Horizon Ath Tunnellers, and visit the mighty Ceremony. B Day 4 Return home. B Lessines, near Ghislenghien. Caterpillar Crater. We then travel Day 3 Somme We travel to Included Meals: B=Breakfast Executive Tour Code: 4BTN via the site of Vampire Farm to the Somme where, by special Jun 15 2018 £339 Zonnebeke to visit the arrangement, we visit the caves For full tour details visit Passchendaele War Museum and located under the village church at www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/btn Silver Service Tour Code: 4BTNV their dugout experience. We look at Bouzencourt. Rarely opened to the Oct 25 2018 £369 the story of 177 Tunnelling public, we see names, poems, Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance Entrance to museums and regimental cap badges, other essential, call for details; single room supplement Company and see the unique RE from £89. places of interest are at extra cost.

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5 days W W Beer & Battlefields from £579 pp

The Lancaster Bomber

Troops relaxing with a beer

Join us for a fascinating experience on this battlefield tour designed by our Tour Includes popular guide Marc Hope. We combine many battlefield sites from both WW1 3 4 nights hotel with and WW2 with visits to a selection of the best breweries, many of which were continental breakfast affected by the conflicts and whose beers were drunk by the troops. At each 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide brewery you will have a guided tour and enjoy a sampling of the beers! 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 Brewery visits as described Day 1 Local departure by coach, region, and enjoy a tasting of a museum, we then go into Ypres and 3 FREE local joining points then to Ypres for a four-night stay. Hommelbier. We then move on to visit the Kasematten Brewery in the (see page 55 for your nearest) Your guide will discuss some beer see the St. Bernardus Brewery at ramparts close to where the Wipers recommendations en route. Watou near Poperinghe, a village Times was published in 1916. B Key Visits Day 2 Poperinghe; Hop where soldiers were billeted in Day 4 Retreat to Dunkirk; 3 Poperinghe Museum & St. Bernardus WW1. B Brasserie Thiriez We spend today 3 Talbot House Brewery Today we look at life Day 3 Kortrijk Brewery, looking at the Battle of Flanders in 3 behind the front and discuss the Trenches of Death & Hooge 1940 and the Retreat to Dunkirk Hop Museum famous estaminets where soldiers We start at the Bierkasteel Van following the fortunes of the British 3 Diksmuide got to drink the local beer Honsebrouck at Kortrijk, then travel Expeditionary Force, including the 3 St. Bernardus Brewery themselves during the war. up to Diksmuide to see where the Wormhoudt Massacre site. After 3 Brasserie Thiriez In Poperinghe we visit Talbot House Belgium Army was fighting during lunch at St. Omer we visit the 3 Kasematten Brewery and their Behind the Lines museum. the Great War and see the Brasserie Thiriez in Esquelbecq, 3 Bierkasteel Van Honsebrouck We also look at the subject of those fascinating Trenches of Death a French brewery frequented in the ‘Shot at Dawn’ and visit the Death which snaked along the Yser Canal: ‘phoney war’ by British Troops. B Your Hotel Cells. Lunchtime in Poperinghe a place where two armies opposed Day 5 Return home. B You will stay for four nights at followed by a visit to the Hop each other over a short stretch of Included Meals: B=Breakfast the 3-star Novotel Ypres. Located Museum to look at the whole water. After lunch at Hooge Crater in the heart of historic town of history of this in the Flanders Café, with time to explore the For full tour details visit Ypres, only a couple of minutes- www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bbb walk from the Menin Gate Memorial, where the 'Last Post' is sounded every evening.

Silver Service Tour Code: 5BBBV May 28 2018 £599 Oct 8 2018 £579 Jul 16 2018 £599 May 27 2019 £599

Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement from £135. Kasematten Brewery Brasserie Thiriez

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W 5 days W Verdun: The Mincing Machine from £399 pp

The Lancaster Bomber

Douaumont Ossuary & Cemetery

The Battle of Verdun was one of the most costly of WW1. Join us on our tour Tour Includes of the battlefields, forts and trenches of the ‘mincing machine’. 3 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast Day 1 Local departure by coach, we see the effect of the shelling, Day 4 St. Mihiel Salient 3 then to our hotel, near Metz for a explore bunkers and see gun The fighting at Verdun was always Specialist Battlefield Guide four-night stay. turrets. We end the day at the linked with the ground to the south 3 Battlefield visits as described Day 2 Battle of Verdun We start Trench of Bayonets memorial and around St. Mihiel and today we look 3 FREE local joining points at the Bois des Caures where the look at the famous story of French at the St. Mihiel Salient. We see the (see page 55 for your nearest) Battle of Verdun began in February soldiers buried alive in their front hill at Les Eparges, torn apart by 1916. Here Colonel Driant and his line trench. B mine warfare, and then look at the Key Visits role of American troops in the area Light Infantry troops bore the brunt Day 3 Fort Douaumont & Fort 3 Douaumont Cemetery in 1918, seeing the US Memorial at of the opening stage of the German Vaux Returning to Verdun we 3 Fort Vaux spend the morning looking at two Mont Sec. After lunch in St. Mihiel assault. We see Driant’s command 3 Citadel Museum post, and where he died, then of the most famous forts at Verdun: we explore the rich remains of 3 Trench System at Apremont continue to the Fleury Museum Fort Douaumont and Fort Vaux. trench systems in the Apremont 3 Fleury Museum which re-opened for the centenary, Now national museums, we visit area, where we see examples of 3 Bois des Caures followed by lunchtime in Verdun. In the top of the forts, see the gun both French and German positions. 3 the afternoon we look at the cost of turrets and explore the tunnels We then continue with a look at the St. Mihiel the Battle of Verdun, seeing the inside. After lunch we visit the role of the ‘Doughboys’ and visit the Your Hotel massive Douaumont Cemetery and Citadel Museum where France’s St. Mihiel American Cemetery. B You will stay for four nights at the moving Douaumont Ossuary, unknown soldier was selected after Day 5 Return home. B the 4-star Novotel Metz under which are the bones of more the war and then look at the ‘left Included Meals: B=Breakfast Hauconcourt. The hotel is than 120,000 soldiers who died in bank’ of the battlefield seeing the situated on the outskirts of Metz, 1916. We then look at two of the high ground at Mort Homme and For full tour details visit and offers a restaurant and bar. Ouvrages – defensive redoubts – Cote 304, where there was bitter www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/fvm The hotel also has an outdoor at Thiaumont and Froideterre where fighting in 1916. B swimming pool (subject to season). Oct 15 2018 departure will stay for four nights at the 3-star Ibis Thionville Porte de Luxembourg in Yutz, near Thionville.The hotel has a restaurant and bar.

Silver Service Tour Code: 5FVMV Jul 30 2018 £429 Oct 15 2018 £419 Oct 1 2018 £399 Jun 17 2019 £449

Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Fort Douaumont Mort Homme from £119.

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The Lancaster Bomber

Nurses on the Crimson Coast

The ‘Crimson Coast’ was a name given to the French and Flanders coastline Tour Includes during the Great War when it became a place of sacrifice with men dying in 3 4 nights hotel with the hospitals along the French coast and the end of the Western Front seeing continental breakfast heavy fighting in Flanders: the fields here being covered in the crimson of 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide poppy fields. This tour looks at a range of often neglected subjects from 3 Battlefield visits as described women in WW1 to the use of foreign labour behind the lines, as well as what 3 FREE local joining points was going on in the trenches. We also visit the grave of John McCrae, who (see page 55 for your nearest) wrote the immortal ‘In Flanders Fields’ poem, as well as seeing where he Key Visits wrote it. 3 Montreuil Sur Mer 3 Etaples Military Cemetery Day 1 Local departure by coach, McCrae, who wrote ‘In Flanders Day 4 Flanders & Ypres We start 3 Wimereux then to Belgium for a four-night Fields’ and end the day at Boulogne the day at Poperinghe looking at 3 stay. Eastern Cemetery for the grave of life behind the lines with a visit to Boulogne Eastern Cemetery 3 Talbot House Day 2 Etaples We begin the tour WW1 poet Julien Grenfell. B Talbot House. We also see the 3 Yser Tower Museum at ‘GHQ’ in Montreuil sur Mer, which Day 3 Belgian Coast Returning Death Cells and Execution 3 was the headquarters of the British to the Crimson Coast we look at the Memorial. After lunch we visit the Diksmuide Army on the Western Front. We see role of Dunkirk and De Panne in Yser Tower Museum and the nearby Your Hotel where GHQ was and visit the Haig WW1 before seeing where the end Trenches of Death. Travelling down statue. After lunch in Etaples, we of the Western Front was at to Ypres we stop at Essex Farm You will stay for four nights at the look at its role in WW1 as the main Nieuport. We visit the Yser Museum where John McCrae wrote ‘In 3-star Ibis De Panne. The hotel is Base Depot and see the huge and Memorial, as well as the British Flanders Fields’ in 1915 before situated in the centre of the Etaples Military Cemetery, close to Nieuport Memorial. We then travel staying for the Last Post Ceremony resort and close to the beach. the site of the ‘Bull Ring’ where the to Ostend to see the bow of HMS at the Menin Gate. B The hotel has a bar. Etaples Mutiny began in 1917. At Vindictive, and see the site of the Day 5 Return home. B B Wimereux we see the grave of John Zeebrugge Raid April 1918. Included Meals: B=Breakfast

For full tour details visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bcc

Silver Service Tour Code: 5BCCV Apr 16 2018 £439 Oct 8 2018 £439 Jun 4 2018 £449 Apr 15 2019 £449

Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Crimson Coast Cemetery Zeebrugge Raid 1918 from £129.

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Walking the Battle fields

Our popular guided battlefield walking tours created by head guide, Paul Reed, are a great way to get close to ground and experience the ‘lay of the land’ as well as visiting the memorials and cemeteries along the way. Led by our expert guides, the walks are two to four hours long, with plenty of stops along the way where you will hear stories of valour and sacrifices made and see at first-hand what the combatants faced. They are suitable for anyone with a basic level of fitness. 1

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Tour Includes 3 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key Visits Ypres Battlefields 3 Bellewaarde mine craters Our popular Walking Ypres tour has been revised with themed walks around 3 Passchendaele the Battle of Passchendaele and operations in Flanders in 1917. 3 Tyne Cot 3 Yser Museum 3 Nieuport Dunes Day 1 Local departure by coach, Passchendaele village, Tyne Cot For full tour details visit then to Ypres for a four-night stay. and in the afternoon Polygon Wood, www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bwy Your Hotel looking at the role of Anzac and Day 2 Pilkem Ridge & Hooge You will stay for four nights at the Canadian forces. B This morning’s walk covers the 3-star Novotel in Ypres, located Day 4 Pervyse & Nieuport Third Ypres battles following the only a couple of minutes' walk role of the 38th (Welsh) division and Today we walk along the old railway from the Menin Gate Memorial. also the story Harry Patch the Last line near the Flanders Coast at the Fighting Tommy. In the afternoon village of Pervyse, where British we walk the low ridges near Ypres nurses tended Belgian wounded. Silver Service Tour Code: 5BWYV seeing old mine craters at We then visit the Yser Museum and Jul 2 2018 £579 Jul 1 2019 £589 Bellewaarde. B look at the Battle for the Dunes at Aug 20 2018 £579 Day 3 Passchendaele Nieuport. B Entrance to museums and & Polygon Wood Today’s walks Day 5 Return home. B places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance focus on the area around Included Meals: B=Breakfast essential, call for details; single room supplement Nieuport Memorial from £139.

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5 days W Walking the Somme W from £579 pp

w ry Tour Includes e ra 8 N e 1 3 in 0 4 nights hotel with it 2 r continental breakfast fo 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key Visits 3 Thiepval 3 Mash Valley 3 Mametz Wood 3 Pozières 3 Pigeon Ravine 3 Ricqueval Bridge Your Hotel You will stay for four nights at Mash Valley, Ovillers the 3-star Ibis Styles Peronne Assevillers Hotel. The hotel has For 2018 we have a new version of our Walking the Somme tour where we a restaurant and bar and is visit some key locations on the 1916 battlefield but also look at events on the situated approximately 6 miles Somme in 1918, and see where the breakout battles for the Hindenburg Line from the centre of Peronne in took place. the heart of the Somme Battlefields area. Day 1 Local departure by coach, of the 38th (Welsh) Division on then to our hotel near Peronne, Mametz Wood, walking up Death where we stay for four nights. Valley, seeing the Welsh Dragon Day 2 Thiepval & Mash Valley memorial and Flat Iron Copse Walk 1: Our first walk starts at Cemetery before ending in Thiepval, where we see the huge Bazentin. Walk 4: In the afternoon Thiepval Memorial and then walk we start in the village of Pozières out to the site of the German front where Australian soldiers fought in lines at the Leipzig Redoubt. We July-September 1916, and walk then follow the front line looking at across the battlefield here to the Mametz Wood Welsh Memorial site of Mouquet Farm, or Mucky the fighting here on 1st July 1916, Poppies on the Somme of the 1918 sectors here, including see the Lonsdale Cemetery and Farm to the troops. B the canal bridge at Ricqueval and walk across The Nab to Ovillers. Day 4 The Somme Walk 5: the US Cemetery and Memorial at OPTIONAL SOUND Walk 2: Our second walk starts in Our final walk looks at the fighting Bony. B Mash Valley at Ovillers and follows on the Somme in March and AND LIGHT SHOW the front line across to La Boisselle September 1918, where we walk Day 5 Return home. B Join us on a unique evening out and the Lochnagar Mine Crater. B from Villers-Guislain to Pigeon Included Meals: B=Breakfast on the Somme where we attend a Day 3 Mametz Wood Ravine, across an area of the moving 'Sound and Light' show Hindenburg Line battlefields. After For full tour details visit with extracts from WW1 accounts, & Pozières Walk 3: Our walks www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/frsw today began as we follow the attack lunch in St. Quentin, we see some music, and re-enactors in uniform – all combined with a typical WW1 meal from the trenches. This will take place in historic Bernafay Wood, and is organised by 'Digger Cote 160' a local Remembrance group. Cost £36. Please note: The local 'Sound and Light' show with meal on day three is subject to minimum numbers and favourable weather conditions and may be cancelled with short notice.

Silver Service Tour Code: 5FRSV-W Jul 2 2018 £579 Jul 1 2019 £589 Aug 20 2018 £579 Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Leger walking group from £129.

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W 9 days W Western Front End to End from £959 pp

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Main de Massiges Trenches, Champagne

For the final year of the WW1 Centenary we are pleased to announce the return Tour Includes of this popular tour from 2014 in a new amended version, where we take a 3 8 nights hotel with unique journey along the whole length of the Western Front, starting on the continental breakfast Belgian coast and reaching the far end on the border with Switzerland. 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Day 1 Local departure by coach or the Chemin des Dames, then onto In the afternoon we look at the Battlefield visits as described Door-to-Door service, then to Reims for a two-night stay. B Meuse-Argonne Offensive involving 3 FREE local joining points Belgium for an overnight stay. Day 4 Marne & Château-Thierry American troops, seeing the (see page 55 for your nearest) impressive cemetery and museum Day 2 Nieuport & Flanders We proceed to Meaux and look Key Visits We start on the beach near at the Battle of the Marne in at Romagne. We then travel to Nieuport where the Western Front September 1914, seeing the Nancy for an overnight stay. B 3 Yser Museum began in the sand dunes. We visit excellent Meaux WW1 Museum, Day 6 Vosges Mountains 3 Thiepval Memorial the new Yser Museum and then and after lunch, follow the Old We follow the Western Front from 3 Meaux Museum travel through Flanders to Hooge Contemptibles at La Ferte sous Nancy down into the Vosges and 3 Massiges Trenches where we see the trenches and Jouarre, the Americans at Château- see the amazing trenches at Le 3 Meuse-Argonne Cemetery Thierry and then proceed to the Linge; trenches cut into rock and museums. In the afternoon we 3 Le Linge Trenches travel across the Messines Ridge battlefields around Soissons where the scene of fierce combat on what 3 Hartmannsvillerkopf for an overnight stay in the the Second Battle of the Marne took was then German soil. We then 3 Verdun Battlefield Peronne/Albert. B place in 1918. B spend two nights in the Day 3 Somme & Chemin des Day 5 Massiges Trenches Mulhouse/Colmar area. B Your Hotels Dames Today we see the & Meuse-Argonne Departing Day 7 The End of the Front You will stay for one night in battlefields of the Somme visiting Reims we visit the impressive Today we visit the end of the Belgium, followed by one night in the Thiepval Memorial with its reconstructed trench system at Western Front at Pfetterhouse, the Peronne/Albert then two museum and visitors’ centre. Massiges, where a whole battlefield seeing where the front lines ended nights in the Reims area. We also We walk the trenches in has been restored to what it looked on the Swiss border and seeing stay for one night in the Nancy Newfoundland Park and have lunch like in WW1, with an amazing some of the bunkers. After lunch in area, and two nights in the at the Ulster Tower before visiting system of trenches to explore. Altkirch we look at the battlefield Colmar/Mulhouse area before around Hartmannsvillerkopf, where our final night in the Reims area. fighting took place in the Vosges All hotels will be minimum 3-star mountains. B hotels. Day 8 Verdun Battlefields We travel to Verdun, the ‘Meat- Grinder’ of WW1, and visit the impressive new museum at Fleury and also the battlefield around Douaumont. We stay overnight in the Reims area. B Silver Service Tour Code: 9FWFV Jul 21 2018 £989 Jun 1 2019 £989 Day 9 Return home. B Oct 20 2018 £959 Included Meals: B=Breakfast Entrance to museums and For full tour details visit places of interest are at extra cost. www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/fwf Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Soissons Memorial from £279.

22 Call or visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk for full details 23 Gallipoli Battlefields by Air.qxp_Layout 1 19/01/2018 11:35 Page 1 1

7 days W Gallipoli Battlefields by Air from £1069 pp W

The Lancaster Bomber

Hill 10 Cemetery, Gallipoli

Gallipoli was where ANZAC, British and French forces fought Turkey in 1915. Tour Includes Travel with us on the landing beaches and haunting battlefields of the 3 6 nights hotel with Dardenelles. continental breakfast & 5 evening meals Day 1 Fly to Istanbul where you 1st Lancashire Fusiliers won six Horse suffered heavily in the 3 will be met and transferred to your V.C.s before breakfast. (This visit August offensives – as graphically Specialist Battlefield Guide overnight hotel. requires some walking as the roads illustrated in the film ‘Gallipoli’. 3 Battlefield visits as described Day 2 Gabatepe & Helles to the beach are not accessible by The day ends on the New Zealand 3 Return flights from Heathrow Memorial Early departure for the coach.) At X Beach we see where battlefield at Chunuk Bair. B,D to Istanbul with one checked HMS Implacable landed 2nd Royal journey to Gallipoli. We have lunch Day 5 Suvla Bay – Shell Green in suitcase Fusiliers, and after lunch we look in Gallipoli town, overlooking the In the morning we go to Suvla Bay, 3 Airport transfers in Istanbul Dardanelles. Following check-in at at the ground at Krithia. B,D seeing where we study the landings 3 Air-conditioned coach travel our hotel where we stay for five Day 4 ANZAC Beach – Lone and also look at the history of the nights, we visit the Helles Memorial Pine Continuing with our look at ‘Lost Battalion’, the 1/5th Norfolks: Key Visits to the Missing, where the vast the 25th April landings we move to the men from the Sandringham 3 majority of those who fell in 1915 ANZAC, where the Australians and Royal estate who disappeared Gallipoli Town are commemorated. B,D New Zealanders landed. We visit during the fighting at Suvla. We also 3 V Beach Day 3 British Landings Cape ANZAC itself, spending the morning visit the Suvla Bay Museum. After 3 Helles Memorial walking along the landing beach, lunch we return to ANZAC and see Helles – Krithia We start by 3 Krithia also seeing the battlefield and the peaceful Shrapnel Valley focussing on the landings on 25th 3 ANZAC Cove April 1915. On the British sector we military cemeteries. At Lone Pine, Cemetery and walk up to Shell 3 Lone Pine see where the River Clyde landed we look at the Australian attack, Green where the Australians played 3 men of the 29th Division on V then see the Lone Pine Memorial a game of cricket in full view of the Suvla Bay Beach and the nearby V Beach and Cemetery. We see where Albert Turks. B,D 3 Shell Green Cemetery. We then move on to Jacka became the first Australian Day 6 Channakale – Troy Lancashire Landing, where the to win the V.C. in WW1, and go to We cross the Dardanelles to visit Flights the Nek, where the Australian Light Channakale, seeing the military Return flights are from Heathrow cemetery, with free time for some to Istanbul. shopping and lunch. In the afternoon we travel to Troy, visiting Your Hotels the site of the famous siege and Your first night will be at the seeing the archaeological remains, 4-star Grand Hotel Halic or before returning to Gallipoli. B,D All Seasons Hotel in Istanbul. Day 7 Fly back to the U.K. from You will also stay for five nights Istanbul. B at the 3-star Hotel Kum in Important Note: An e-visa is required prior to Eceabat/Gelibolu. travelling . Please call for more details. Air Tour Code: K7TGL Please Note due to the nature of this tour, some walking is involved. Sep 8 2018 £1069 May 25 2019 £1099

Included Meals: B=Breakfast, D=Dinner Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. For full tour details visit Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/ktgl essential, call for details; single room supplement from £239; e-visa application fee; flight War time illustration of the Lancashire Landing supplements where applicable.

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1 5 days W The Battlefields of Belgium – W Campaigns from WW1, WW2 & Waterloo from £439 pp

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Walcheren Memorial, Westkapelle

A great introductory Battlefield Tour, looking at major battlefields across Tour Includes

Belgium, from Waterloo to WW1 ending in liberation in 1944. 3 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast Day 1 Local departure by coach, of both sides are buried and in the Messines Ridge to see the visitors' 3 then to Belgium for a four-night British plots this includes the ‘first centre before seeing the Memorial Specialist Battlefield Guide stay. and the last’ casualties of WW1. B to the Missing at Ploegsteert. We 3 Battlefield visits as described Day 2 Waterloo & Mons We start Day 3 Flanders & Ypres end the day by travelling into Ypres 3 FREE local joining points and attend the moving Last Post with the Battle of Waterloo in June Today we travel to Flanders and (see page 55 for your nearest) 1815 seeing the Waterloo Memorial look at the fighting around Ypres Ceremony. B Museum. You also have time to between 1914 and 1918. At Tyne Day 4 Knocke-Heist Key Visits climb the Lion Mound and see the Cot Cemetery we visit the largest & Walcheren Island Moving on 3 Waterloo Memorial Museum British and Commonwealth to the Second World War we look at stunning Waterloo panorama. After 3 Lion Mound lunch in Waterloo we travel the cemetery. At the Sanctuary Wood the liberation of Belgium in 3 Nimy Bridge ninety-nine years from Waterloo to Trench Museum we see a system September 1944. At the For 3 Mons War Museum Mons and look at the opening shots of preserved WW1 trenches and Freedom Museum in Knocke-Heist, 3 St. Symphorien Cemetery of WW1. At Nimy Bridge we see then have lunch at Hooge, together we see some amazing life-size 3 where the first Victoria Crosses with time to visit the museum. In dioramas depicting the fighting in Tyne Cot Cemetery 3 were awarded in 1914 and then see the grounds of the Hooge Chateau this region. We then travel into the Freedom Museum the Mons War Museum. At St. we visit some mine craters from Breskens Pocket to see where the 3 Breskens Pocket Symphorien we see where the dead 1916 and then travel down the Canadians landed on the coast. 3 Sherman Tank Memorial After lunch we look at the battle for 3 Bergen op Zoom the Walcheren Island in November 1944 when commandos landed on Your Hotel the coast. We see the Sherman You will stay for four nights at the Tank Memorial overlooking the 3-star Olympia Hotel in Bruges. landing beaches and also visit the The friendly family-owned hotel is war graves in Bergen op Zoom. B a 15 minute walk from the centre Day 5 Return home. B of this wonderful historic town with its beautiful churches, Included Meals: B=Breakfast squares and many cafés. For full tour details visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bww

Silver Service Tour Code: 5BWWV May 7 2018 £449 Aug 27* 2018 £449 Jun 11 2018 £449 Oct 15 2018 £439 Jul 16 2018 £449 May 6 2019 £459 Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Sanctuary Wood Trench Museum Hooge Museum from £135.

24 Call or visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk for full details 25 Dambusters 75th Anniversary.qxp_Layout 1 19/01/2018 11:54 Page 1 2

7 days W Dambusters 75th Anniversary Tour W from £599 pp

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Möhne Dam

The Dambusters Raid of May 1943 was one of the most iconic air operations of Tour Includes the Second World War. We honour the sacrifice of Guy Gibson VC and his crews 3 6 nights hotel with who flew in the mission, on the 75th Anniversary of Operation Chastise. English/continental breakfast 3 May 12 This tour begins in Hendon to see an original Lancaster the attack took place in 1943, Specialist Battlefield Guide Sheffield. Make you own way to our Bomber, before seeing the area at returning to our hotel late this 3 Battlefield visits as described hotel in the Sheffield area where Reculver in Kent where bouncing evening. B 3 FREE parking at the Leger bomb testing took place. From here you will be staying for the night. May 17 Rheinberg War offices in Rotherham and Free car parking is available at the we travel to France and continue to Cemetery We travel across return drop off service Leger offices in nearby Rotherham Antwerp for an overnight stay. B Germany and visit the graves of 3 Local joining points are together with a free transfer service May 15 Bergen op Zoom Dambuster crews in Rheinberg War available – call or see website to your hotel. Today we see the grave of Cemetery and later, at Reichswald for details May 13 Derwent Dam Dambusters leader Guy Gibson VC, Forest War Cemetery, before having We head to Derwent Dam in the killed in a crash in a Mosquito in an overnight stay in the Arnhem Key Visits Peak District where the Dambusters 1944. We also see Dambusters area. B 3 Derwent Dam operated training flights because of graves at Bergen op Zoom before May 18 We return to the U.K. 3 Hendon its resemblance to the German continuing to our hotel in the today. You can choose to be 3 dams, before travelling to former Dortmund/Wuppertal area of dropped off at one of our local Rheinberg Cemetery RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, the Germany for two nights. B joining points or at the Leger offices 3 Bergen op Zoom Cemetery base of 617 Squadron. Here you May 16 Dambusters 75th in Rotherham to collect your parked 3 75th Anniversary visit to can visit the heritage centre and see Anniversary Today, on 16th May – car. B the Dams where the Dambusters flew from. the 75th Anniversary – we visit the Included Meals: B=Breakfast We continue to our hotel in the Dams attacked in the raid, also Your Hotels Heathrow/Watford area. B seeing the small museum at the For full tour details visit You will stay for one night in the May 14 Hendon & Reculver Eder Dam. After dinner this evening www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/dam Sheffield area, followed by one Today, we visit the RAF Museum in we visit the Möhne Dam at the time night in the Heathrow/Watford area. You will then stay for one night in Antwerp, two nights in the Wuppertal/Dortmund area and one night in the Arnhem area. All hotels will be minimum 3-star hotels.

Executive Tour Code: 7DAM May 12 2018 £599

Silver Service Tour Code: 7DAMV May 12 2018 £689

Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery Derwent Dam from £149.

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The Lancaster Bomber

D-Day Beaches

The landings on the Normandy coastline on 6th June 1944 were the turning point of the WW2 in the west – few other events of this war have captivated such public interest, and D-Day remains an inspiring and moving story more than 70 years later. 4-Day Tour ‘Bloody Omaha.’ We see: 5-Day Tour Day 1 Local departure by coach, Omaha Beach , where we uncover Day 1 Local departure by coach, then to Caen in Normandy for a the real story of Saving Private then to Caen in Normandy for a three-night stay. Ryan and visit the huge Normandy four-night stay. American Cemetery . Day 2 Britain’s D-Day: Pegasus Day 2 & 3 As per the 4-day Overlord Museum , we visit this Bridge & British Beaches Today itinerary. 2xB impressive museum in Normandy. is spent looking at the British and Day 4 Battle of the Bocage: Canadian involvement. Sites of Richard Winters Leadership Falaise Gap special interest will be... Memorial , we look at the story of We move beyond D-Day and look at the US Airborne Forces and the Pegasus Bridge & Museum , scene the fighting in the Bocage men known as the ‘Band of of the first actions of D-Day and countryside... glider landings, as well as Ranville Brothers’. Bloody Battles , we examine the Polar Bears Memorial, Fontenay War Cemetery. Utah Beach , we visit the expanded fighting at Tilly-sur-Seulles and museum. Sword , Juno & Gold beaches , Fontenay le Pesnel. scenes of heavy British and German Cemetery at La Cambe, the ‘Scottish Corridor ’, we visit Hill 112 Canadian losses. resting place of German tank ace 4-Day Tour with its Churchill tank memorial. Arromanches , where we see the Michael Wittman. B Executive Tour Code: 4FDN ‘Corridor of Death ’, used by the remains of the Mulberry Harbour. B Day 4 Return home. B Apr 13 2018 £309 Sep 14 2018 £329 Germans to make their retreat in Included Meals: B=Breakfast Apr 20 2018 £309 Oct 5 2018 £319 Day 3 America’s D-Day: Bloody August 1944. B Omaha & American Airborne May 25* 2018 £339 Oct 25* 2018 £309 For full tour details visit Day 5 Return home. B Jun 15 2018 £339 Mar 7 2019 £299 Today we look at the American www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/fdn Jul 20 2018 £329 Apr 12 2019 £319 aspects of D-Day and the story of Included Meals: B=Breakfast Jul 27 2018 £329 May 24 2019 £349 For full tour details visit Aug 24* 2018 £329 www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/fdn Executive & 4-Star Hotel Tour Code: 4FDNH Jul 20 2018 £409 Aug 24 2018 £409

Silver Service Tour Code: 4FDNV Mar 8 2018 £329 Jun 15 2018 £369 Mar 30* 2018 £339 Oct 25* 2018 £349 Apr 6 2018 £349 Feb 14* 2019 £329 Apr 13 2018 £359 Mar 29* 2019 £349 Apr 20 2018 £369 Apr 12 2019 £379 May 4 2018 £369

Luxuria Tour Code: 4 FDNX Pegasus Bridge Tiger Tank, Vimoutiers Nov 3 2018 £389 Mar 7 2019 £399

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4 days from £299 pp Walking the D-Day Beaches 5 days W W 5 days from £379 pp of Normandy from £499 pp Tour Includes 3 3 or 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key Visits 3 Pegasus Memorial Museum 3 Sword, Gold & Omaha Beaches 3 Juno Beach Centre 3 Arromanches 3 Overlord Museum 3 Utah Beach Museum Yo ur Hotel You will stay for three or four nights at either the 2-star Kyriad Caen Sud-Ifs or the 2-star Hotel Leger walking group on Omaha Beach Carline Caen Nord, both situated on the outskirts of Caen. Due to This tour is based around some of the walks in our Tour Includes demand, other hotels of a similar head guide, Paul Reed’s book ‘Walking D-Day’. 3 4 nights hotel with standard may be used. continental breakfast Upgrade to 4-star hotel in Caen Day 1 Local departure by coach, Walk 4 : We go to St. Marie du Mont 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide Mercure Caen Centre Port De then to Caen for a four-night stay. to follow the story of the ‘Band of 3 Plaisance (Tour Ref 4FDNH & Day 2 Brothers’ on D-Day, walking to Battlefield visits as described 5FDNHV). The hotel is situated in Walk 1 : We start our walks on Brecourt Manor to examine Richard 3 FREE local joining points Winters assault on the gun the heart of the historic town, Sword Beach following the (see page 55 for your nearest) only a short walk from the Tour Commandos in their attack on battery. B Leroy and Abbaye aux Dames. Ouistrehem Cassino, seeing the Day 4 Key Visits Facilities include a relaxing No. 4 Commando Museum. Walk 5 : Today we are on the so- 3 Sword Beach lounge bar and restaurant. called ‘Eastern Flank’ walking the Walk 2 : We follow the Canadian 3 No. 4 Commando Museum ground which was the scene of landings at Juno Beach. We see the 3 Juno Beach 5-Day Tour beach, wartime bunkers and a heavy fighting in June 1944. This afternoon join us on an optional 3 Omaha Beach Executive Tour Code: 5FDN preserved Churchill AVRE tank. B tour to Merville Battery where we 3 Omaha Beach Museum May 14 2018 £399 Mar 4 2019 £379 Day 3 look at the attack here by 9th 3 Jun 11 2018 £409 May 13 2019 £419 Walk 3 : At Omaha Beach we St. Marie du Mont Battalion Parachute Regiment Sep 10 2018 £399 discuss ‘Bloody Omaha’ and then 3 Brecourt on D-Day. B walk the bluff above the beach, 3 Silver Service Tour Code: 5FDNV Eastern Flank getting the viewpoint the Germans Day 5 Return home. B Mar 5 2018 £399 Aug 20* 2018 £469 3 Merville Battery Museum had on D-Day – seeing surviving Included Meals: B=Breakfast Mar 19 2018 £409 Aug 27* 2018 £469 examples of their defences and Apr 2* 2018 £429 Sep 17 2018 £469 For full tour details visit Your Hotel looking at the true story behind Apr 23 2018 £449 Oct 1 2018 £449 www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/fwn You will stay for four nights at Saving Private Ryan. We then visit May 7 2018 £459 Oct 22* 2018 £439 either the 2-star Kyriad Caen Sud- the Omaha Beach museum. May 21 2018 £469 Feb 11* 2019 £419 Ifs or the 2-star Carline Caen Jun 4 2018 £489 Mar 18 2019 £429 Nord, both situated on the Jun 25 2018 £469 Apr 1* 2019 £449 outskirts of Caen. Jul 9 2018 £469 May 6 2019 £479 Jul 23 2018 £469

Silver Service & 4-Star Hotel Tour Code: 5FDNHV Jul 30 2018 £569 Jul 29 2019 £589 Aug 20 2018 £569

Luxuria Tour Code: 5 FDNX Juno Beach Apr 2 2018 £509 Jun 18 2018 £519 Apr 16 2018 £509 Oct 29 2018 £499 Silver Service Tour Code: 5FWNV May 28* 2018 £519 Apr 1 2019 £519 Jul 16 2018 £499 Jul 15 2019 £519 Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Entrance to museums and Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance places of interest are at extra cost. essential, call for details; single room supplement Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance from £89 (4 days), £115 (5 days), £139 (4 days essential, call for details; single room supplement 4-star hotel), £185 (5 days 4-star hotel). Omaha Beach Memorial from £115.

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W 7 days W D-Day – Portsmouth & Normandy from £649 pp

Tour Includes 3 6 nights hotel with English/continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key Visits 3 Tangmere Aviation Museum Ranville War Cemetery Iron Mike, La Fiere 3 Sword, Gold and Juno Beach This is the ultimate D-Day tour for those wanting to understand this vital day in 3 Longues Battery our history. Your Hotels Jul 9 Tangmere Aviation ferry to Normandy and onto our Beahces and the Mulberry Harbour You will stay for one night at the Museum Local departure by coach hotel in Caen for a five-night stay. B at Arromanches. B 3-star Ibis Portsmouth in the or Door-to Door service then travel Jul 11 The Airborne Story We Jul 14 Bayeux to Pointe du Hoc centre of the city. You will then to Kent where you meet your tour focus on the British Airborne story Starting at Bayeux War Cemetery stay for five nights at the 2-star coach and specialist guide. Our tour at Pegasus Bridge, Ranville and the and the guns of the massive Carline Caen Nord. The hotel has begins at Tangmere Aviation Merville Battery Museum. B Longues Battery, we have lunch in a bar, restaurant and lift. Museum and then we continue to Jul 12 America’s D-Day Port en Bessin and then visit Portsmouth for an overnight stay. We follow the American story at Omaha Beach and Pointe du Hoc. B Jul 10 D-Day sites, Southwick Dead Man’s Corner, US Airborne Jul 15 Return home. B Silver Service Tour Code: 7FDPV House We start in Portsmouth and sites around St. Mere Eglise and Included Meals: B=Breakfast Jul 9 2018 £649 then go to Southwick House Utah Beach. B (access subject to approval by the For full holiday details visit Entrance to museums and Jul 13 Britain’s D-Day MOD) seeing the famous D-Day wall www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/fpn places of interest are at extra cost. Today we look at the British sector Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance map. We then take an afternoon visiting Sword, Juno and Gold essential, call for details; single room supplement from £169. 2

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W Panzers in Normandy from £459 pp Tour Includes 3 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key Visits Sherman Tank on D-Day 3 French Tank Museum 3 Armoured warfare in Normandy, from D-Day to the breakout battles of 1944. Overlord Museum 3 Gold and Juno Beach the graves in Bannerville War Omaha Beach museum before Day 1 Local departure by coach, 3 Villers Bocage then to Normandy for a four-night Cemetery. B moving onto La Cambe, visiting the stay. Day 3 Operation Totalise & German Panzer crews buried there Your Hotel including Tiger Ace Michael Day 2 Gold Beach, Juno Saumur A long but rewarding day You will stay for four nights at the Wittmann. After lunch we visit the & Villers Bocage We start on as we travel to the superb French 2-star Hotel Carline Caen Nord, Overlord Museum. We then Gold Beach where we discuss Tank Museum at Saumur. Tanks situated on the outskirts of Caen. examine Operation Cobra: the the use of self-propelled guns in here include: a Panther, Tiger I and Due to demand we may also use American advance in July 1944. B the 'run-in shoot' seeing an example Tiger II as well as Allied Churchills the 2-star Kyriad Caen Sud-Ifs. of a Sexton. At Juno Beach we see and Shermans. We have plenty of Day 5 Return home. B time to explore this rich collection. B a Churchill AVRE and Sherman DD Included Meals: B=Breakfast Silver Service Tour Code: 5FPNV tank. After lunch we look at the Day 4 Omaha Beach, La Cambe Apr 16 2018 £459 Oct 15 2018 £459 7th Armoured Division in its clash For full holiday details visit & Overlord Museum Back in Jul 2 2018 £459 Jul 1 2019 £469 with Tiger tanks at Villers-Bocage. www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/fpn Normandy, we look at the American Entrance to museums and We examine Operation Goodwood, use of tanks at Omaha Beach places of interest are at extra cost. seeing the battlefield around the where Sherman DD tanks ran into Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance Bourguebus Ridge and visit essential, call for details; single room supplement problems on D-Day. We visit the from £115.

28 Call or visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk for full details 29 Race to Remagen | Operation Market Garden.qxp_Layout 1 19/01/2018 12:01 Page 1 2

Race to Remagen: 4 days W W Aachen to the Rhineland from £349 pp Tour Includes 3 3 nights hotel with continental breakfast & 2 evening meals 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key Visits The remains of Remagen Bridge German Cemetery, Hürtgenwald 3 Eyewitness & Hürtgenwald We discover the story of Allied soldiers from the Siegfried Line to the bloody Museums 3 Elsdorf Hürtgen Forest, and follow the advance to the river Rhine at Remagen. 3 Vossenack Cemetery Day 1 Local departure by coach, Teeth defences and then travel into the outskirts of Remagen where 3 Remagen Bridge & Museum then to our hotel in Valkenburg in the Hürtgenwald battlefield. Here American troops discovered the Your Hotel Holland for a three-night stay. we follow the bloody battle in the Rhine bridge was intact: the last You will stay for three nights at Day 2 Siegfried Line; forest, visiting the Hürtgenwald one remaining. We have lunchtime the 3-star Hotel Walram in the Hürtgenwald We start at the Museum, frontline positions in the in Remagen then visit the Remagen centre of Valkenburg. superb ‘Eyewitness WWII’ museum woods, and the Vossenack German Bridge Museum, see where the at Beek in Holland. Here we see an Cemetery at. B,D fighting took place and cross the Executive Tour Code: 4HRR unrivalled collection of uniforms Day 3 Race to Remagen Rhine to view the battlefield from Sep 14 2018 £349 and weapons from WW2. We then Today we follow the American the other side of the river. B,D visit the Netherlands American advance on the river Rhine: the Day 4 Return home. B Silver Service Tour Code: 4HRRV Cemetery where we see the graves ‘Race to Remagen’. We look at the Included Meals: B=Breakfast, D=Dinner Apr 6 2018 £389 Apr 5 2019 £409 of members of Easy Company – first clash of Pershing and Tiger For full tour details visit Entrance to museums and the ‘Band of Brothers’, as well as the tanks at Elsdorf in March 1945, places of interest are at extra cost. www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/hrr dead from Remagen. On the before following the US Armoured Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance advance via Stadt Meckenheim to essential, call for details; single room supplement Siegfried Line we see Dragon’s from £45. 2

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Operation Market Garden W from £349 pp

Tour Includes 3 3 nights hotel with continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described Young Adults Discount 3 FREE local joining points Save 50% (see page 55 for your nearest) (aged 8-17) on dates marked * Key Visits Troops landing 1944 3 Arnhem Airborne Museum 3 We follow the ill-fated operation devised by General the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Ooseterbeek Church Cemetery we have lunch and then 3 Arnhem Bridge Montgomery to shorten the war. see some of the positions in the 3 Nijmegen Day 1 Local departure by coach, the Grave Bridge, before looking at Oosterbeek Perimeter before then to the Belgium for an overnight the tough fighting for Nijmegen and visiting the area around Arnhem Your Hotels stay. the crossing of the Waal River by Bridge, where the pivotal battle for You will stay for two nights in Day 2 Joe’s Bridge to Nijmegen American Airborne forces. Continue the outcome of Operation Market the 4-star Bilderberg Hotel in We travel to Joe’s Bridge, the start to our hotel in Wolfheze for a Garden took place. B Wolfheze near Arnhem. two-night stay. B position of the Guards Armoured Day 4 Return home. B Overnight stays in Belgium will Division at the beginning of Day 3 Hartenstein Hotel & The Included Meals: B=Breakfast be in a city-style hotel. Operation Market Garden. We look Battle of Arnhem We begin at the at the Irish Guards’ assault and see Hartenstein Hotel, headquarters of For full tour details visit their graves at Valkenswaard War the 1st Airborne Division during the www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/hmg Executive Tour Code: 4HMG Cemetery. We then see the vast Arnhem battle, and now an Jul 20* 2018 £349 Sep 14 2018 £349 German cemetery at Ysselsteyn excellent museum. We then see an Entrance to museums and before visiting the impressive original memorial at Wolfheze and places of interest are at extra cost. Silver Service Tour Code: 4HMGV Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance Overloon War Museum. After lunch, look at one of the landing grounds essential, call for details; single room supplement Apr 20 2018 £379 Mar 29 2019 £379 we resume the XXX Corps route at at Ginkel Heath. Following a visit to from £89. Oct 25* 2018 £379

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W 5 days W Arnhem & the Rhine Crossings from £479 pp

The Lancaster Bomber

Arnhem Bridge

This tour looks at the Allied attempts to cross the mighty River Rhine. Tour Includes After the failure of ‘Operation Market Garden’, there had to be a re-think 3 4 nights hotel with about Allied strategy. continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide Day 1 Local departure by coach, where General Urquhart hid during for the battles of 1945. We also visit 3 then to Wolfheze on the outskirts of the battle. B Groesbeek War Cemetery before Battlefield visits as described Arnhem for a four-night stay. Day 3 Arnhem Bridge & The looking at the fighting in 3 FREE local joining points Day 2 Arnhem Landing Island The battle of Arnhem Bridge Reichswald Forest, seeing the War (see page 55 for your nearest) is one of the iconic moments of Cemetery there – the largest British Grounds & Oosterbeek Key Visits We start the tour at the Arnhem Operation Market Garden and we Second World War cemetery in Europe with more than 7,000 Airborne Museum. Located in the see where the fighting took place 3 Arnhem Airborne Museum graves. After lunch in Kleve, we look old Hartenstein Hotel, the building around the bridge. After lunch in 3 Oosterbeek Church at the advance on the Rhineland, was there in 1944 and used as 1st Nijmegen, we visit Jonkerbos War 3 Driel Cemetery before examining events examining the fighting at Xanten, Airborne Division’s Headquarters. 3 Arnhem Bridge Now an excellent museum of the on ‘The Island’ in 1944/45, looking Goch and the Hochwald Gap, before 3 Nijmegen battle, here we set the scene before at the fighting around the De Laar seeing where the Rhine crossings 3 Groesbeek War Cemetery travelling out to some of the landing Farm, and following the so-called took place between Rees and grounds at Ginkel Heath and ‘Driel Dash’. American Airborne Wesel. We end the day in the area Your Hotel Wolfheze. Before lunch we see one troops also held The Island after the where 6th (Airborne) Division You will stay for four nights at the of the original Arnhem memorials, battle and we see their memorial, as landed during Operation Varsity. B 4-star Bilderberg Wolfheze Hotel and in the afternoon look at the well as the battle-scarred building Day 5 Return home. B on the outskirts of Arnhem. bitter fighting in the Oosterbeek where men from the Hampshire Included Meals: B=Breakfast The hotel has a bar and perimeter – the infamous Regiment fought in October 1944. B restaurant, indoor swimming ‘Cauldron’. We see Arnhem For full tour details visit Day 4 Reichswald Forest & The pool and sauna. The hotel has Oosterbeek War Cemetery; visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/gar Rhineland Following on from the become a firm favourite with Oosterbeek Church; see positions period of static fighting during the Leger guests. held by the Border Regiment and winter of 1944/45, we begin today follow the story of the ‘Lonsdale at the National Liberation Museum Force’, before visiting the house at Groesbeek to help set the scene

Silver Service Tour Code: 5GARV Mar 26 2018 £479 Aug 27 2018 £499 May 28 2018 £499 Oct 15 2018 £499 Jun 18 2018 £499 Mar 25 2019 £489 Jul 23 2018 £499 May 27 2019 £519

Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Oosterbeek Church Airborne Museum from £129.

30 Call or visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk for full details 31 Dunkirk & Fortress Europe.qxp_Layout 1 19/01/2018 12:03 Page 1 2

4 days from £319 pp W Dunkirk & Fortress Europe W 5 days from £399 pp

Young Adults Discount The LancasteSr Baovmebe r 50% (aged 8-17) on dates marked*

Wreck of SS Devonia, Dunkirk

Join us on this classic battlefield tour as we follow the fighting in France in Tour Includes 1940, and discover the real story behind the recent film Dunkirk as we reveal the 3 3 or 4 nights hotel with Miracle of Dunkirk and explore bunkers and V-Weapon sites across northern continental breakfast France and Belgium. 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 4-Day Tour and the Dunkirk Memorial to the Day 4 Atlantic Wall: Liberation 3 FREE local joining points Day 1 Local departure by coach, Missing. At Bray Dunes we look at On the Belgium coast at Raversijde (see page 55 for your nearest) then to Belgium for a three-night the story of the evacuation beaches we see how the WW1 Aachen stay. and the ‘little ships’, forever Battery was turned into a section of Key Visits connected to the Dunkirk story. At the Atlantic Wall by the Germans, Day 2 Battle of France: Retreat Eperlecques we see the massive seeing the bunker, trenches and 3 St. Venant Memorial To Dunkirk We look at the fighting Blockhaus, built as a launch site for many original features, then travel & Cemetery in the Battle of France in May 1940 V2 rockets, then see a typical V1 to the French coast for lunch and 3 Cassel Hill following the story of the Durham Doodlebug ski-ramp site, hidden in visit Batterie Todt. We see the 3 Light Infantry and Royal Welch Dunkirk War Cemetery the woods near Morbecque. In the museum here which includes a very Fusiliers at St. Venant, seeing the & Memorial evening join an optional trip to rare German 280mm Railway Gun, memorial and nearby graves. At 3 Raversijde Ypres for the moving Last Post then visit the V3 super-gun system Cassel Hill we examine the last 3 Wormhout Massacre site Ceremony. B at Mimoyecques. Here we go stand here by the Oxs & Bucks and 3 V3 Site Mimoyecques through tunnels built to house this Glosters. We visit the site at Day 4 Return home. B 3 incredible weapon which was never Last Post Ceremony Wormhout where a massacre of Included Meals: B=Breakfast 3 fired in anger due to Allied bombing. Batterie Todt British troops took place by the SS, For full tour details visit We end the day looking at the then in Dunkirk visit the excellent www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bdk liberation of the coastal region in War Museum of Operation Dynamo, northern France in September 1944 followed by a visit to the East Mole. 5-Day Tour with a visit to Calais Canadian We end the day in the dunes to Day 1 Local departure by coach, Cemetery. B remember the sacrifice of French then to Belgium for a four-night 4-Day Tour troops in May to June 1940. B Day 5 Return home. B stay. Executive Tour Code: 4BDK Included Meals: B=Breakfast Day 3 Miracle of Dunkirk: The Days 2 & 3 As per Days 2 & 3 of Jul 20 2018 £319 Apr 26 2019 £329 V-Weapons We return to Dunkirk the 4-day itinerary. 2xB For full tour details visit Aug 31 2018 £319 Jul 19 2019 £329 to see the Dunkirk War Cemetery www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bdk Sep 14 2018 £319 5-Day Tour Your Hotel Executive Tour Code: 5BDK You will stay for three or four May 21 2018 £399 May 20 2019 £419 nights at the Hotel Oude Abdij in the historic town of Lo. This Silver Service Tour Code: 5 BDKV family-run 3-star hotel has a Jul 16 2018 £449 Oct 22* 2018 £409 spacious lounge area, bar, Aug 20* 2018 £449 Mar 25 2019 £429 restaurant, large patio and lift. Sep 24 2018 £449 Jun 10 2019 £469 Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement 120mm Belgian Howitzer on Atlantic Wall, Raversijde from £50 (4 days); £75 (5 days).

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W 4 days from £299 pp W Battle of the Bulge 5 days from £399 pp

The Lancaster Bomber

Recogne German Cemetery

The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive in the West. Tour Includes Choose from a four or five-day option into the Ardennes WWII Battlefields, the 3 3 or 4 nights hotel with largest in Europe! The five-day tour considers the forgotten British contribution continental breakfast to the fighting in the Ardennes in 1944. 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 4-Day Tour At Mardasson we see the Houffalize. From here we see the Battlefield visits as described 3 Day 1 Local departure by coach, impressive American Memorial and British Memorial, an M10 Achillies FREE local joining points then to Liège for a three night stay. Bastogne Historical Centre. B tank and visit Hotton War Cemetery. (see page 55 for your nearest) Day 4 Return home. B We travel out to where the German Day 2 Siegfried Line – advance was stopped at Celles, and Key Visits Kampfgruppe Peiper & La Included Meals: B=Breakfast visit the Battle of the Ardennes 3 Gleize We start our tour at the Henri-Chapelle American For full tour details visit Museum in La Roche. B massive Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bbm Cemetery. We then move on to an Day 5 Return home. B 3 Bois Jacques area where the ‘Battle of the Bulge’ 5-Day Tour Included Meals: B=Breakfast 3 Bastogne started, seeing the front line 3 101st Airborne Museum Day 1 Local departure by coach, For full tour details visit positions close to the Siegfried Line then to Liège for a four night stay. www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bbm at Hollerath. Here we see Dragon’s Days 2 & 3 As per the 4-day Teeth anti-tank defences, trenches itinerary. 2xB Your Hotel and foxholes and memorials to both the German and American Day 4 Britain’s Battle of the You will stay for three or four troops who were here in December Bulge – Battle of the Ardennes nights at the 4-star Globales Post 1944. We then follow the story of Museum, La Roche In December Hotel & Wellness Liège. The hotel Kampfgruppe Peiper and look at the 1944 British troops were rushed to has a lift and bar. Please note we sad story of the Malmedy the Ardennes to help their much may also use the 3-star Ibis 4-Day Tour Massacre. We follow Peiper and his pressed American Allies. We start Liège-Seraing. Executive Tour Code: 4BBM tanks into La Gleize where one of today at the Panther Tank in May 31 2018 £299 May 30 2019 £319 his mighty King Tigers still Oct 5 2018 £299 remains. B Silver Service Tour Code: 4BBMV Day 3 Band of Brothers – Apr 27 2018 £339 Apr 26 2019 £359 Bastogne We get an insight into Oct 25 2018 £329 the dreadful German losses in the Ardennes at the German cemetery 5-Day Tour in Recogne before following the Silver Service Tour Code: 5BBMV ‘Band of Brothers’. We see where Jul 9 2018 £439 Oct 22 2018 £399 they attacked Foy and go into the Jul 30 2018 £439 Apr 8 2019 £469 area where their foxholes have been Sep 3 2018 £439 Jun 17 2019 £469 preserved in Bois Jacques, also seeing the Easy Company Memorial Luxuria Tour Code: 5BBMX nearby. In Bastogne we visit the May 21 2018 £499 May 20 2019 £509 new 101st Airborne Museum. In the Entrance to museums and afternoon we see where General places of interest are at extra cost. Patton’s men and tanks linked up Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement with the Airborne troops. British M10 tank at La Roche from £75 (4 days), £129 (5 days).

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2 5 days W W The Maginot Line from £439 pp

The Lancaster Bomber

Fermont

With the exception of the Great Wall of China, the Maginot Line was the Tour Includes greatest system of permanent fortifications ever built. 3 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast Day 1 Local departure by coach, Day 3 Ouvrage Fermont & Villy Maginot Line and was one part of 3 then to the Liège area and our la Ferté We start our look at the the line actually held by British Specialist Battlefield Guide overnight hotel. Maginot Line at Ouvrage Fermont. troops in 1939/40. We spend two 3 Battlefield visits as described Day 2 Eben Emael & Fort We descend in the original lifts, hours underground here seeing 3 FREE local joining points what a remarkable state of d’Aubin-Neufchâteau We begin travel on an old ammunition train (see page 55 for your nearest) this fortifications tour in Belgium and see the fighting bunkers during preservation the site is in then and see the 1930s Liège forts used our morning’s guided tour of the complete our tour with a with a visit Key Visits site. In the afternoon we see Villy la to the cemetery at Luttange, where to defend Belgium against the 3 Fort Eben Emael Ferté, a smaller Maginot Line the first British soldier killed in WW2 Blitzkrieg. We start at the famous 3 Ouvrage Fermont with a ride Eben Emael, assaulted by German complex which saw heavy fighting is buried. B on an original ammunition Airborne troops in gliders; we have in May 1940. We have a fully-guided Day 5 Return home. B tour around one of the few Maginot train a full tour of the site here. After Included Meals: B=Breakfast 3 Ouvrage Immerhof lunch we see the heavily fought sites that saw very heavy fighting. B 3 over Fort d’Aubin-Neufchâteau, Day 4 Ouvrage Immerhof For full holiday details visit Villy La Ferté www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/fml completely surrounded in May & Ouvrage Hackenberg Your Hotels 1940. Here we take a guided tour of We continue with our look at the the fort, seeing the extensive classic Maginot Line locations with You will stay for three-nights at damage caused in 1940. We then a visit to Ouvrage Immerhof. We the 3-star Ibis Thionville Porte de travel through the Belgian spend the morning visiting the Luxembourg in Yutz, near Ardennes, scene of the Blitzkrieg in whole site, with a 90-minute guided Thionville. The hotel has a May 1940, and into France to our tour, also seeing the museum. Next restaurant and bar. mainstay hotel in Yutz on the we travel to Ouvrage Hackenberg. Your overnight stay in Liège will outskirts of Thionville for a three- Set on high ground, this is the be in a city-style hotel. night stay. B largest fortification on the whole

Fort Eben Emael

Silver Service Tour Code: 5FMLV Apr 16 2018 £439 Apr 15 2019 £449 Oct 22 2018 £439

Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance Villy la Ferté, a smaller essential, call for details; single room supplement Villy la Ferté 1940 Maginot Line complex from £119.

34 Call or visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk for full details 35 Commando Operations.qxp_Layout 1 19/01/2018 12:16 Page 1

7 days 2 Commando Operations of WWII featuring W W Dieppe, St. Nazaire & Normandy from £669 pp

The Lancaster Bomber

U-Boat Pens, Lorient

We follow the actions of British Commandos in their heroic raids in Operations Tour Includes Jubilee and Chariot, and their American Ranger counterparts in northern and 3 6 nights hotel with western France. continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide Day 1 Local departure by coach or museum of armoured vehicles, with Day 5 Atlantic Wall & U-Boat 3 Door-to-Door service, then to our everything from Shermans to Tiger Pens We depart St. Nazaire and Battlefield visits as described hotel in Rouen for two nights. tanks. We stay in St. Nazaire for two visit the Grand Blockhaus Museum, 3 FREE local joining points Day 2 Operation Jubilee: nights (Sep 17 departure will stay and later at Lorient we see the huge (see page 55 for your nearest) The Dieppe Raid Today we look for two nights at the Novotel U-Boat submarine pens which B Key Visits at the first major Allied attempt to Nantes Centre Bord de Loire) . sheltered the Nazi U-Boat fleet in effect a large scale landing on the Day 4 The Greatest Raid of All this area. After lunch we travel to 3 No. 3 Commando sites Caen for two nights. B French coast. In August 1942 In March 1942 Operation Chariot 3 Dieppe Landing Beaches Canadians, and British commandos, saw HMS Campbeltown ram the Day 6 Maisy Battery, Pointe 3 Dieppe War Cemetery dock gates of the port used by laid down the lessons for D-Day but du Hoc & Eastern Flank 3 Saumur Tank Museum at huge cost. We see the area German U-Boats: resulting in the At the Maisy Battery we explore a 3 U-Boats Pens where No. 3 Commando fought, success and the award of five preserved gun battery site attacked 3 St. Nazaire and around Dieppe see the Victoria Crosses. We look at the by the US Rangers, seeing trenches, 3 Maisy Battery Canadian landing beaches, and the raid, see U-Boats pens* and have bunkers and gun pits, with guns in 3 bunkers that defeated them. We time to visit the U-Boat museum (at place. We then see Pointe du Hoc Pointe du Hoc also visit Dieppe War Cemetery. B own cost). Later we go to where Rangers assaulted the cliffs. Your Hotels Escoublac-la-Baule War Cemetery In the afternoon, we follow the story Day 3 Saumur Tank Museum You will stay for two nights at a and the German War Cemetery at of British Commandoes on D-Day We move from Upper Normandy to minimum 2-star hotel in Rouen, Pornichet. B inland from Sword Beach, visiting St. Nazaire, but en route stop at the followed by two nights at the *Please note: A degree of walking the Piper Bill Millin memorial and superb Saumur Tank Museum 3-star Holiday Inn Express in which is France’s national war is required when visiting the the Amfreville-Breville battlefield. B U-Boat pens as this is a vast area . St. Nazaire. You will then stay for Day 7 Return home. B two nights at either the 2-star Included Meals: B=Breakfast Carline Caen Nord or Kyriad Caen Sud-Ifs in Caen. For full holiday details visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/fgr Sep 17 departure will stay for two-nights at the Novotel Nantes Centre Bord de Loire on Day 3.

Silver Service Tour Code: 7FGRV Jul 2 2018 £669 Sep 17 2018 £669 Aug 20 2018 £669 May 4 2019 £679

Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Maisy Battery Rangers Memorial from £169.

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W France Under the Jackboot - SOE, SAS 7 days W & the French Resistance from £699 pp

The Lancaster Bomber

Oradour-Sur-Glane as it is today – preserved since 1944

We learn about the experience of ‘France Under The Jackboot’ during the Tour Includes Second World War. We cover a wide range of subjects from the fighting in 1940, 3 6 nights hotel with to wartime resistance, SOE agents, and the terrible events of the Holocaust. continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide Day 1 Local departure by coach or before those held here were sent off Deportation Museum and see 3 Door-to-Door service then to to camps in Germany and in the where the Gestapo had its Battlefield visits as described Compiegne, north of Paris for two East. We view where the camp was, Headquarters, a place where SOE 3 FREE local joining points nights. see the memorials and the Visitors agent Violette Szabo was held. We (see page 55 for your nearest) Day 2 Battle of France We start Centre. In the afternoon we depart then depart Limoges for Amiens, B B Key Visits by looking at the German Blitzkrieg for Limoges for two nights. where we stay for two nights. in 1940 and the Fall of France. We Day 4 SOE in Limoges, Day 6 Amiens Prison & French 3 French WW2 Cemetery visit the graves of French soldiers Oradour-Sur-Glane In the Resistance Today we look at the 3 Compiegne Armistice who fell in defence of Paris and see morning we follow the trail of SOE French Resistance in northern Museum Agent Violet Szabo close to France seeing where the attack on where the Germans humiliated 3 Drancy Memorial site France by forcing them to surrender Limoges, seeing the village where Amiens Prison took place. Here RAF 3 Oradour sur Glane where the Armistice of 1918 was she was sheltered, the area where Mosquitos bombed the prison. We 3 Limoges Resistance Museum signed and also see the museum she was dropped in and the ground also visit the graves of the RAF 3 Amiens Prison here. In the Compiegne Forest we where she was captured. In the crews in the nearby cemetery. We 3 see where Paris’ Jews were afternoon we visit the village of then travel to Arras to see the ‘Mur Arras Reistrance Memorial 3 deported by train to Concentration Oradour sur Glane which was wiped des Fusillies’: the moat of an old Resistance Museum, Bondues Camps. In the afternoon we travel out by SS troops in 1944. Now fort where members of the Your Hotels to see the Museum of Resistance preserved as a memorial site, we resistance were executed during and Deportation covering the whole enter through the visitors centre to WWII, now a poignant memorial You will stay for two nights at the Picardy region in Tergnier. B learn of this tragic event from WW2 site. After lunch we visit the 3-star Ibis Styles Compiegne hotel, then two nights at the Day 3 The Holocaust in Paris and spend the afternoon among the Resistance Museum at Bondues 3-star Ibis Hotel Limoges Nord Today we focus on the experience deserted streets left just as they near Lille, before returning to and finally two nights at the of the Jewish community in Paris were in 1944. B Amiens. B 3-star Holiday Inn Express during WW2 seeing the Holocaust Day 5 Resistance & Day 7 Return home. B Amiens, or similar. Memorial site at Drancy which Deportation Museum In Limoges Included Meals: B=Breakfast served as a Concentration Camp we visit the the Resistance and For full holiday details visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/fsa

Silver Service Tour Code: 7FSAV May 12 2018 £699 Oct 20 2018 £699 Jul 23 2018 £699 May 11 2019 £699

Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Resistance Memorial, Arras Amiens Prison from £189.

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Peenemunde, the Baltic Coast 9 days W W & Wartime Berlin from £869 pp

The Lancaster Bomber

V1 at Peenemunde

This tour looks at an area in the heart of what was Nazi Germany, visiting the Tour Includes Baltic Coast where members of the National Socialist Party could go on holiday 3 8 nights hotel with and where Nazi Scientists developed the many rockets weapons used against continental breakfast Britain. In Berlin we visit locations connected with Hitler and the Nazis, and 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide travel outside the city to the site of the German Army Headquarters at Vossen 3 Battlefield visits as described Wünsdorf. A fascinating insight into one of the key aspects of the Second 3 FREE local joining points World War. (see page 55 for your nearest) Key Visits Day 1 Local departure by coach or story and the human cost behind War Cemetery and in Potsdam we 3 Peenemunde Musuem Door-to-Door service, then to such a project. B visit the Cecilienhof, a palace built 3 Prora 3 Berlin 3 Potsdam Holland for an overnight stay. for Germany’s last Kaiser. We end Day 5 Hitler’s Capital We travel 3 Zossen-Wünsdorf Bunkers down into Berlin and start in the the day at Gleis 17, a railway station Day 2 We travel across western 3 Bebelplatz 3 Hitler’s Bunker Germany to the Baltic Coast to our heart of Hitler’s Capital, at the site where Jews were deported from hotel in Greifswald for three of the Hitler Bunker. We take time to Berlin, now a Holocaust Memorial. B Your Hotels nights. B visit the Holocaust Memorial and Day 8 We leave Berlin and travel to You will stay for three nights at then look at the desperate struggle Belgium for an overnight stay. B Day 3 Peenemunde We start at the 4-star Mercure Hotel in 1945 for the Brandenburg Gate Peenemunde, an island on the Day 9 Return home. B Greifswald am Gorzberg, located and Reichstag. We stay in Berlin for coast where the German rocket Included Meals: B=Breakfast in the south of Greifswald. three nights. B development programme began to Aug 18 departure will stay will For full holiday details visit build the ‘Vengeance’ weapons. We Day 6 Zossen-Wünsdorf stay for three nights at the 3-star www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/gpb see the superb Peenemunde Today we visit Zossen-Wünsdorf, VCH Hotel Greifswald in Museum, look around the area the massive German Army Greifswald. You will then stay for where the camps and worksites headquarters south of Berlin. Here three nights in Berlin at the were, visit the graves of those killed we see unique ‘rocket shaped’ air Vienna House Easy Berlin, City in the bombing of this area and look raid shelters, get a guided tour of Hotel Berlin East, or similar. the headquarters site, visit the at the development of the V1 and Overnight stays in Holland and military museum and as Wünsdorf V2 here. B Belgium will be in city-style is also a ‘book town’, there will be Day 4 Prora ‘Strength Through hotels. Joy’ programme At Prora we go time to explore this too. B right onto the Baltic Coast on the Day 7 Berlin; Potsdam & Gleis Rügen Island and look at the 17 Returning to Berlin we begin on massive complex built between the Unter Den Linden and see 1936 to 1939, so that ordinary Bebelplatz where the book burning Germans who were members of the took place in 1936 before visiting National Socialist Party could go on the nearby German Historical Silver Service Tour Code: 9GPBV holiday. Part of the Nazi ‘Strength Museum. We then look at the Aug 18 2018 £869 Aug 3 2019 £899 Through Joy’ programme, there are subject of opposition to the Nazi Oct 13 2018 £899 eight huge identical buildings and Regiment during WW2 and see the Entrance to museums and they are classic examples of Nazi memorial to Stauffenberg at the places of interest are at extra cost. architecture from this period. A new Benderblock, also visiting the Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement visitors' centre helps explain the museum. After lunch we see Berlin Wünsdorf Air Raid Shelter from £189.

Call or visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk for full details 37 38 Air Europe.qxp_Layout 1 19/01/2018 12:33 Page 1 2

W Air War Europe: Colditz, Dambusters 9 days W & the Great Escape from £879 pp

The Lancaster Bomber

The Lancaster Bomber

The war in the air above Europe saw the men of RAF Bomber Command taking Tour Includes the conflict to the heart of the enemy. This popular tour focuses on three of its 3 8 nights hotel with great stories: Colditz, the Dambusters Raid and the Great Escape from Stalag continental breakfast Luft III. 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide Day 1 Local departure by coach or killed nearly 25,000 civilians. Later, Day 7 Hannover To Hannover, 3 Battlefield visits as described Door-to-Door service, then to spend free time in Dresden or join where we visit the Air Force 3 FREE local joining points Holland for an overnight stay. us as we visit the Bundeswehr Museum and Hannover War (see page 55 for your nearest) Day 2 Möhne Dam We travel into Military History Museum with its Cemetery with more than 2,000 Germany and visit Reichswald unparalleled collection of WW2 graves of bomber crew casualties. Key Visits Forest War Cemetery – the biggest artefacts. B We stay overnight in Hannover. B 3 Reichswald Forest War WW2 British Cemetery in Europe. Day 5 Zagan & The Great Day 8 Rheinberg War Cemetery Cemetery From here, we travel to the Möhne Escape We cross into Poland and We travel into Holland, stopping at 3 3 Dam and examine the daring visit Zagan where Stalag Luft III Rheinberg War Cemetery where Colditz Castle Dresden 3 aircraft attack. From the top of the was located. Here in March 1944 some of the Dambusters are buried Air Force Musuem dam we can see where the attack the so-called ‘Great Escape’ took and end at the grave of Guy Gibson 3 Bundeswehr Military came. We also visit Eder Dam, place, made famous in the VC whose war ended when his History Museum 3 Hannover before moving on to our overnight Hollywood film. Continue to our Mosquito crashed at Steenbergen. hotel in Jena. B hotel in Berlin for two nights. B We stay overnight in the Belgium Day 3 Colditz We explore the Day 6 Berlin Air Raids In Berlin area. B famous castle and museum at we look at the raids on the city, Day 9 Return home. B Colditz, a name forever associated starting at the impressive air force Included Meals: B=Breakfast with the story of Prisoners of War in museum at Gatow, which has a WW2. We continue to our hotel in large collection of aircraft from For full holiday details visit the Dresden area for two nights. B WW1 to the Cold War period. We www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/gcz Möhne Dam Day 4 The Dresden Raids then visit Berlin War Cemetery where many RAF Bomber Evening Meal Packages We spend the morning in Dresden Your Hotels looking at the raid on the city in Command crews are buried. In the For your convenience, pre-book February 1945 which destroyed evening, we offer a visit around You will stay overnight in Holland 4 evening meals to be taken at most of its original buildings and Berlin’s WW2 sights. B at the NH Koningshof in your hotels in Dresden and Berlin. Veldhoven, near Eindhoven, £69 per person (Apr-Aug) or similar, and the 4-star Best £79 (Oct). Call for details . Western in Jena, then two nights Silver Service Tour Code: 9GCZV at the 3-star Achat Premium Hotel in Dresden, two nights at Apr 7 2018 £899 Sep 22 2018 £919 the 3-star Grand City Berlin East, May 26 2018 £899 Oct 6 2018 £879 Jul 14 2018 £919 Apr 6 2019 £919 Vienna House Easy, or similar on Aug 18 2018 £919 May 25 2019 £929 the outskirts of Berlin, overnight at the 4-star H4 Hotel or the Luxuria Tour Code: 9GCZX Wyndham Hannover Atrium in Apr 27 2019 £1069 Hannover, or similar and finally Entrance to museums and overnight at a city-style hotel places of interest are at extra cost. in Belgium. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Colditz Castle from £189.

38 Call or visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk for full details 39 Downfall in Berlin by Air.qxp_Layout 1 19/01/2018 12:37 Page 1

5 days 2 W Downfall in Berlin by Air from £699 pp W

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Brandenburg Gate

Treptower Park Reichstag The end of Hitler and the Nazi Regime in 1945 was brilliantly portrayed in the Tour Includes film ‘Downfall’. On this tour, discover the true story of the last months of WW2 3 4 nights hotel with and the end of the ‘Thousand Year Reich’. continental breakfast 3 Specialist Historical Guide Day 1 Fly to Berlin and transfer to Headquarters Bunkers, taking a Day 5 Transfer to airport for your 3 our hotel for four nights. guided tour and seeing the garrison return flight to the U.K. B Historical visits as described museum and rocket-shaped air raid 3 Day 2 Battle for the Reichstag; Included Meals: B=Breakfast Return flights to Berlin with Ravensbrück Concentration shelters. There is also a book village hand luggage allowance here and you have time to explore. For full holiday details visit Camp We start today by looking at 3 Airport transfers in Germany After lunch we examine the Battle www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/kgdb the last weeks of the Third Reich 3 Air-conditioned coach travel and see where Hitler’s Bunker was. of the Halbe Pocket, seeing the We look at the story behind those German War Cemetery, the Russian Your Hotel Key Visits final days and see a reconstruction Graves and Tank Memorials, and You will stay for four nights at the 3 Battle for the Reichstag of the bunker in an air raid shelter at the area of the fighting in Halbe NH Hotel Alexanderplatz. This 3 Ravensbrück Concentration the Anhalter Bahnhof. We look at itself. B 4-star hotel is located opposite Camp the Battle for the Reichstag in April Day 4 Treptower; Seelow the Volkspark Friedrichshain Park 3 Russian Museum at 1945, following the Russian Heights This morning we visit the in Berlin, a 9-minute tram ride Karlshorst Advance, and after lunch, travel to Russian Museum at Karlshorst, from Alexanderplatz Square. The 3 Russian Cemetery and the Ravensbrück Concentration where the final surrender of the nearest tram stop is 250 metres Memorial at Treptower Camp. This was a woman’s camp Second World War took place on from the hotel. NH Berlin- 3 Wehrmacht Headquarters and many British SOE agents died 8th May 1945. We see the huge Alexanderplatz offers spacious Bunkers here, including Violette Szabo GC, Russian Cemetery and Memorial at rooms with modern décor. Free 3 Seelow Heights depicted in the film ‘Carve Her Treptower before going east of wi-fi is provided in throughout the Name With Pride’. B Berlin to the Seelow Heights, seeing hotel. International cuisine and Flights where the final battles on the German specialities are served in Day 3 Wehrmacht Return flights to/from Berlin are Eastern Front took place in April the first-floor restaurant, which is Headquarters Bunkers; Battle available from a selection of U.K. 1945. Here we see the Seelow furnished with glass panels and of the Halbe Pocket We travel airports, call or see our website Museum, Soviet Memorial and visit leather seating. There is also a out of Berlin to Zossen-Wünsdorf for details. and visit the Wehrmacht the battlefield around the town. B terrace and a bar.

Air Tour Code: K5GDB Aug 9 2018 £699

Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Berlin Battle Damage from £149; flight supplements where applicable. Ravensbrück Memorial Checked in luggage.

Call or visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk for full details 39 40 The Rise & Fall of the third reich.qxp_Layout 1 19/01/2018 12:38 Page 1

2 12 days W W The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich from £1099 pp

The Lancaster Bomber Tour Includes 3 Brandenburg Gate 1939 11 nights hotel with continental breakfast This tour examines the ‘dark charisma of Adolf Hitler’, and the Rise of National 3 Specialist Historical Guide Socialism in the 1920s and Hitler’s move to take power in the 1930s, visiting 3 Historical visits as described some of the iconic and infamous locations connected with the Third Reich. 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Day 1 Local departure by coach or see the visitors’ centre and tunnels Olympic Stadium. In the Grunewald Door-to-Door service, then to in Berchtesgaden, and the stunning area of West Berlin we see where Key Visits Belgium for an overnight stay. war memorial murals. B decisions were made about the 3 Munich 3 Eagle’s Nest ‘Final Solution’ at Wannsee and visit Day 2 To Bavaria, for a three-night Day 5 Nuremberg We head to 3 Berchtesgaden 3 Nuremberg ‘Gleis 17’ the memorial site to stay. B Nuremberg, where we look at the 3 Reichstag 3 Berlin 3 Dachau Berlin’s Jews who were deported to Day 3 Munich & Dachau sites connected with the many Nazi 3 Sachsenhausen Camp rallies of the Third Reich, including the death camps in the East. B We start with the rise of National 3 Munster Panzer Museum Socialism in Munich and Hitler’s the Zeppelinfeld and Luitpold. Day 8 Sachsenhausen & involvement in the November 1923 Overnight in Nuremberg/Erlangen Ravensbrück Camps Today we Your Hotels area. B visit Sachsenhausen Concentration Putsch. We see the Ludwig’s Bridge, You will stay for three nights at Camp just outside Berlin which was then visit the Hofbrau House where Day 6 Nuremberg Trials We look the 3-star Hotel Johannisbad in used to detain mainly political Hitler gave many of his early at the story of the post-war Bad Aibling or the NH Munich prisoners. Later we travel to speeches. At the Odeonplatz we Nuremberg Trials, visiting the court Messe, followed by one night at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. see where Hitler was when war was where they took place and the 3-star NH Erlangen or the This was a women’s camp where declared in 1914, then on to other museum. The original courtroom Fuerther Mercure Nuernberg Violette Szabo GC was murdered in Third Reich sites in Munich, 600 is still in use and, subject to West. You will then stay for four 1945. B including the site of the Brown modern-day demands, we also go nights at the 3-star Vienna House House. After lunch we travel to into the courtroom itself. Continue Day 9 Battle of Berlin The end of Easy, or similar, on the outskirts Dachau, to consider the ‘Final to Berlin area for a four-night stay. B the Third Reich came in April 1945 of Berlin. You will also stay for Solution’ at one of the first Day 7 Berlin In Berlin we start at with the Allied advance on Berlin. one night at a minimum 3-star Concentration Camps. B the Reichstag area, walking to the Today, we look at the Battle of the hotel in the Bucholz/Hodenhagen Day 4 Berchtesgaden nearby Brandenburg Gate and the Seelow Heights. We then visit area. Treptower Park Russian Cemetery We travel to the Eagle’s Nest site of Hitler’s Bunker before visiting Overnight stays in Belgium and and see the Karlshorst Museum. B (weather permitting), built for the ‘Topography of Terror’ museum. Holland will be in city-style hotels. Hitler’s fiftieth birthday. We also After lunch we travel to the 1936 Day 10 Munster Travel to Munster to visit the superb German Evening Meal Packages Panzer Museum. Overnight stay in For your convenience, pre-book the Bucholz/Hodenhagen area. B 9 evening meals to be taken at Day 11 We travel to Lüneburg your hotels from Day 2 to Day 10 Heath where the British took the £169 per person. Call for details . surrender of German forces in May 1945 and visit Becklingen War Cemetery, Soltau. Continue to our Silver Service Tour Code: 12GHCV overnight hotel in Holland. B May 21 2018 £1099 Oct 15 2018 £1099 Jul 30 2018 £1099 Jul 29 2019 £1139 Day 12 Return home. B Included Meals: B=Breakfast Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. For full holiday details visit Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Seelow Soviet Memorial www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/ghc from £229.

40 Call or visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk for full details 41 The Rise of evil.qxp_Layout 1 19/01/2018 12:38 Page 1 2

The Rise of Evil: Munich, Nuremberg 5 days W W & The Eagle’s Nest by Air from £699 pp

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The Lancaster Bomber

Eagle’s Nest

This new tour looks at the Rise and Fall of the Nazis before and during the Tour Includes Second World War, visiting key sites in Munich, Nuremberg and also travelling 3 4 nights hotel with to the site of the Berghof and the Eagle’s Nest. continental breakfast 3 Specialist Historical Guide Day 1 Fly to Munich and transfer to see the site of the Berghof, Hitler’s 3 our hotel for four nights. mountain home, and also travel up Historical visits as described 3 Day 2 From Putsch to National to the Eagle’s Nest (weather Return flights to Munich with Socialism We spend our first day permitting) to see the building hand luggage allowance walking around Munich seeing the constructed for Hitler’s birthday. We 3 Airport transfers in Germany also have time in Berchtesgaden. B sites connected with the rise of 3 Air-conditioned coach travel National Socialism from the Putsch, Day 4 Third Reich Nuremberg following the route taken in 1923. In Nuremberg we look at the Nazi Key Visits Battle damage, Munich Party rallies in the 1930s and see Along the way we will see the 3 Third Reich sites in Munich Hoffbrau House and also visit the site of many of them at both the go into the courtroom itself. B 3 Eagle’s Nest Odeonsplatz where the Putsch Luitpoldhahn and the Zeppelinfeld Day 5 Return flight to the U.K. B 3 ended. We later look at the site of Stadium. We look at the story for Berchtesgaden Included Meals: B=Breakfast the Putsch Memorials, the the battle for Nuremberg in 1945 3 Nuremberg Rally Grounds headquarters of the National and have time to visit the National For full holiday details visit Flights Socialist Party and also the new Socialist Party Document Centre in www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/kgmn Brown House Exhibition Centre to the nearby stadium, built as a rival Return flights to/from Munich are examine at the story of the Munich to the Colosseum in Rome, which Your Hotel available from a selection of U.K. Crisis in the 1930’s that led to war. explains the story of this dark part airports, call or see our website You will stay for four nights at We end the day at Dachau of German history. We also see for details. the 4-star Leonardo Hotel & Concentration Camp to discuss the where the Nuremberg Trials took Residenz. The hotel is located in Holocaust. B place, seeing the visitors’ centre the Obergiesing district, just four and courtroom and, subject Day 3 Eagle's Nest & Berghof underground stops from Munich to modern-day demands, we also Today we travel towards Austria to Central station.

Scene of Putsch, Munich

Air Tour Code: K5GMN May 27 2018 £699 Sep 1 2018 £749 Jul 31 2018 £729

Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement from £109; flight supplements where applicable. Dachau Memorial Checked in luggage.

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W The Holocaust Remembered - The Moving 12 days W Story of Anne Frank & Oskar Schindler from £1049 pp

Sachsenhausen

The Lancaster Bomber

Jewish Cemetery, Terezin Anne Frank’s Memorial

The Holocaust was one of the darkest chapters in 20th century history, Tour Includes claiming at least six million victims. The stories connected with it are both 3 11 nights hotel with shocking and heart-rending, and at times, difficult to make sense of, acting continental breakfast as a warning for future generations; that it should never happen again. 3 Specialist Historical Guide 3 Day 1 Local departure by coach or We also visit ‘Gleis 17’ in the Berlin together many of the Holocaust Historical visits as described Door-to-Door service, then to suburbs where thousands of Jews stories we follow on the tour. B 3 FREE local joining points Holland for an overnight stay. were deported to Concentration Day 9 The Heydrich Story: (see page 55 for your nearest) Camps. At Wannsee we visit the Day 2 Anne Frank’s Story Operation Anthropoid We travel Key Visits Today we uncover the story of conference centre where it is to Prague and follow the story of Anne Frank and her family, seeing believed the decision to carry out Operation Anthropoid (now the 3 Westerbork the outside of her house where she the ‘Final Solution’ was made subject of a Hollywood movie): the Concentration Camp (entrance subject to modern day sheltered from the Gestapo and her assassination of SS leader Reinhard 3 Celle 3 Auschwitz conferences not taking place). B memorial. We then visit Westerbork Heydrich in 1942. Overnight in 3 Bergen-Belsen B Concentration Camp before Day 5 Sachsenhausen Prague. 3 Holocaust Memorial Concentration Camp continuing for an overnight stop in Day 10 Terezin This morning we 3 Topography of Terror Hannover/Hodenhagen area. B We travel out to Sachsenhausen travel to Terezin, once 3 Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp and later Theresienstadt. This town was Day 3 Bergen-Belsen & Anne 3 Berlin sites Frank’s Memorial At Bergen- return to central Berlin for free time turned into a Concentration Camp Belsen we visit the Camp liberated or you can join our optional tour of by the Nazis and used by them as a Your Hotels WW2 military history sites. B propaganda tool to give the by British troops in April 1945. Anne You will stay at 3 or 4-star hotels Day 6 Wroclaw We travel into impression that such camps were Frank died at Bergen-Belsen in 1945 throughout your tour. Please visit Poland and stop at Wroclaw. Once simply for detention. We stay and we see her memorial. Free time our website for details. in Celle before proceeding to Berlin the German city of Breslau, it had a tonight in Bavaria. B Your overnight stay in Belgium for three nights. B large Jewish population. Continue Day 11 Nuremberg We visit the will be in a city-style hotel. Day 4 Berlin & the Final to Kraków for a three-night stay. B Congress Hall which now houses a Solution In Berlin we begin at the Day 7 The Oskar Schindler museum chronicling the rise and Holocaust Memorial then see the Story & Heroes Square fall of the Nazis and linking it with area that was the nerve-centre of In Kraków, we visit the Oskar the Holocaust story. We end our the Third Reich, also the Schindler Factory which is now a tour at the Nuremberg Courthouse Topography of Terror exhibition. museum. We take a look at the site where those who had orchestrated of the Kraków Ghetto and see the Holocaust were tried after WW2, Auschwitz Heroes Square. B and, subject to modern-day Silver Service Tour Code: 12RFSV Day 8 Auschwitz At Auschwitz demands, we also go into the Apr 30 2018 £1149 Apr 29 2019 £1169 we visit what has become one of courtroom itself; a fitting place to Aug 6 2018 £1149 Jul 15 2019 £1189 the enduring symbols of the horror end our moving journey. We Oct 1 2018 £1049 that was the Holocaust. We take a continue to Belgium for an B guided visit of Auschwitz before overnight stay. Luxuria Tour Code: 12RFS X moving on to the vast site of Day 12 Return home. B Jun 11 2018 £1349 Jun 10 2019 £1389 Auschwitz-Birkenau, where an Included Meals: B=Breakfast Entrance to museums and estimated one million died in the places of interest are at extra cost. ‘Final Solution’. A sobering but For full holiday details visit Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance Anne Frank with her parents www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/rfs essential, call for details; single room supplement memorable day, which brings from £259.

42 Call or visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk for full details 43 Understanding the Holocaust, Auschwitz, Kraków & Schindler’s Factory by Air.qxp_Layout 1 22/01/2018 10:19 Page 1 2

Understanding the Holocaust, Auschwitz, 5 days W W Kraków & Schindler’s Factory by Air from £529 pp

The Lancaster Bomber

Auschwitz-Birkenau

The murder of more than six million Jews during the Second World War remains Tour Includes one of the darkest but defining aspects of the conflict. On this tour we look at 3 4 nights hotel with some key aspects of the Holocaust in the area that was German occupied continental breakfast Poland during WW2 and examine the experience of war for the Polish people. 3 Specialist Historical Guide 3 Historical visits as described Day 1 Fly to Kraków and transfer to the workers were detained, seeing Day 5 Return flight to the U.K. B 3 Return flights to Kraków with our hotel in Kraków for four nights. the many museum items and Included Meals: B=Breakfast hand luggage allowance Day 2 Kraków We start our tour in exhibitions. We then walk to the For full holiday details visit Kraków having an in-depth look at massive Auschwitz-Birkenau site, 3 Airport transfers in Poland where the huge scale and human www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/kpkh the Kraków Ghetto seeing the 3 Air-conditioned coach travel ‘Chairs’ memorial, the old Chemist cost of the Holocaust is apparent. shop and the buildings where A moving day studying one of the Key Visits most iconic locations connected to Jewish families lived. After lunch Your Hotel 3 Kraków Ghetto the Holocaust. B we visit the Oskar Schindler You will stay for four nights at 3 Auschwitz Factory; immortalised in the film Day 4 Museum of Polish Home 3-star Legend Hotel in the heart 3 Museum of Polish Forces Schindler’s List, Oskar was able to Forces; British Cemetery We of the Old Town of Kraków. This 3 Oskar Schindler’s Factory save many jews being used as start with a visit to the museum of new hotel, situated in an 3 Auschwitz-Birkenau slave labour in his factory, which is the Polish Home Forces. We then excellent location next to Wawel 3 visit the British Commonwealth War Płaszów Concentration Camp now a museum. We then visit the Hill, offers a restaurant and small Graves Commission Cemetery at 3 Kraków CWGC Cemetery site of Płaszów Concentration fitness room. Camp, seeing the memorial. B Kraków which includes the graves Due to demand, other 3-star Flights of British Prisoners of War who died Day 3 Auschwitz Today we travel hotels may be used such as the in POW camps in German occupied Return flights to/from Kraków to Auschwitz, the most notorious Hotel Wyspianski or Hotel Vienna Poland. In the afternoon you have are available from a selection of and deadly of the Concentration House Easy (Chopin) Kraków . U.K. airports, call or see our Camps in German occupied Poland. free time to explore central website for details. We spend time in Auschwitz where Kraków. B

Auschwitz

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Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement from £149; flight supplements where applicable. Oskar Schindler factory in Kraków ‘Chairs’ memorial in Kraków Checked in luggage.

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W 12 days 10 days The Italian Campaign featuring Salerno, by Coach from by Air from W Anzio & Monte Cassino £1199 pp £1249 pp

The Lancaster Bomber

Monte Cassino Albaneta Farm Memorial

Italy was considered the ‘soft under-belly’ of the Third Reich, but saw some of Tour Includes the toughest fighting in WW2. 3 9 or 11 nights hotel with continental breakfast, 1 lunch 12-Day Tour by Coach and visit the Polish war Cemetery. the Austrian Tyrol. B,D & 8 or 9 evening meals Day 1 Local departure by coach or After lunchtime in Cassino, we visit Day 11 Travel through Germany to 3 Door-to-Door service, then to Cassino War Cemetery and the Belgium for an overnight stay. B Specialist Battlefield Guide Cassino Memorial. We end the day 3 northern France for an overnight Day 12 Return home. B Battlefield visits as described stay. at the German War Cemetery. B,L,D 3 Included Meals: B=Breakfast, FREE local joining points Day 6 Hill 593, Snakeshead Day 2 To the Cremona or Milan L=Lunch, D=Dinner (see page 55 for your nearest – We area for an overnight stay. B,D Ridge & the Liri Valley coach tour only) continue our visits at Monte For full holiday details visit Day 3 Continue south through Italy, Cassino with a specially arranged www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/itc Key Visits making a stop at Florence War visit to Hill 593 and Snakeshead Cemetery en route to Cassino for a 10-Day Tour by Air 3 Florence War Cemetery Ridge, where much of the actual six-night stay. B,D 3 Salerno War Cemetery fighting took place. (Please note Day 1 Fly to Rome where you will 3 Day 4 Salerno & Caserta this will involve some walking). be met and transferred to Cassino Monte Cassino War Cemetery We start at Salerno War Cemetery, We also see Albaneta Farm and for a six-night stay. D 3 Snakeshead Ridge then to the beachhead area, where the Polish Sherman Tank Memorial. Days 2 to 10 As per Days 4-12 of Flights the British and American troops Later, in the Liri Valley we look at the the 12-day itinerary. At the end of landed, before taking lunch at Hitler Line battle, before ending the your tour you will return by coach to Flights to Rome on the 10-day Paestum. In the afternoon, we visit day at the Rapido River. B,D either your original departure airport itinerary by air are available from Caserta War Cemetery, looking at a selection of U.K. airports – call Day 7 Anzio We travel to Anzio, (subject to availability) or one of our the story of Yorkshire and England or see our website for details. seeing the US War Cemetery at local joining points (see page 55 for cricketer, Hedley Verity, and where Nettuno. After lunch we see the details). 9xB,1xL,7xD General Alexander had his Anzio War Museum and British Included Meals: B=Breakfast, headquarters. B,D cemeteries, before going to the L=Lunch, D=Dinner Day 5 Monte Cassino We travel infamous Flyover. B,D For full holiday details visit 12-Day Tour by Coach up to the monastary on Monte Day 8 Minturno & Cassino Cassino, seeing the incredible view, www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/kitc Town We head south from Cassino Silver Service Tour Code: 12ITCV to visit Minturno War Cemetery and May 7 2018 £1199 May 13* 2019 £1249 examine the river crossing at the Oct 15 2018 £1199 Garigliano. After lunch have some Your Hotels free time in Cassino town. B,D You will stay for six nights at the 10-Day Tour by Air Day 9 Sangro & Ortona We travel 4-star Hotel Rocca in Cassino. Air & Silver Service to the Adriatic coast at Ortona, The hotel offers a restaurant, bar, Tour Code: K10ITCV scene of fighting in 1943. In the lift and lounge. May 9 2018 £1249 May 15* 2019 £1299 Oct 17 2018 £1249 afternoon we visit the Sangro War Overnight stays in northern Cemetery. From here we travel France, northern Italy and Entrance to museums and along the Adriatic coast to our hotel Belgium will be in city-style places of interest are at extra cost. in the Ravenna area. B,D hotels. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Day 10 We cross the area of the Overnight stay in Austria will be from £219; flight supplements where applicable. in a minimum 3-star hotel. final battles in Italy in 1945 and *Special 75th Anniversary tour will operate a Monte Cassino War Cemetery continue to our overnight hotel in slightly different itinerary – see website for details.

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5 days 2 Anzio, Monte Cassino & San Pietro: W W Italian Campaign By Air from £699 pp

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The Allies lost more than 70,000 men in the Italian Campaign and on this new Tour Includes tour, we look at some of the key battlefields of 1943-44, when the fighting was 3 4 nights hotel with tough and costly. continental breakfast & 3 evening meals Day 1 Fly to Rome and transfer to travelling up onto the impressive battlefield site and we explore the 3 our overnight hotel in the Pomezia Monte Cassino, with some stunning ruins. After lunch we see the Italian Specialist Battlefield Guide area. views. Here, we visit the Polish Cemetery at Mignano and the 3 Battlefield visits as described Day 2 Anzio We travel to nearby Cemetery and Visitors' Centre and French Cemetery at Venafro. We 3 Return flights to Rome with Anzio. The Anzio landings in see the monastery. After lunch in then return to Cassino for some hand luggage allowance Cassino, we visit Cassino War free time. B,D January 1944 were designed to by- 3 Airport transfers in Italy pass the Germans at Cassino and Cemetery and Memorial, the largest Day 5 On our final morning, you will 3 Air-conditioned coach travel advance rapidly on Rome, but it British and Commonwealth be transferred to the airport for your became one of the most static cemetery in Italy. We then look at return flight. Depending on your Key Visits fronts of WW2. Here, we visit the the final battle for Cassino, in the flight time you may have some 3 Anzio Anzio War Museum, see the British Liri Valley and on the Hitler Line, leisure time in the picturesque town 3 War Cemeteries and see where the before ending at the River Rapido, of Frascati near Rome. B Cassino War Cemetery seeing the memorials. B,D and Memorial Allies landed. After lunch, we visit Included Meals: B=Breakfast, D=Dinner the Sicily–Rome American Day 4 San Pietro; Italian and 3 River Rapido Cemetery and Visitors' Centre, French War Cemeteries For full holiday details visit 3 San Pietro before travelling to our hotel in This morning we journey to San www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/kiac 3 Italian Cemetery at Mignano Cassino for three nights. B,D Pietro, a small village in the crucial Your Hotels Flights Day 3 Monte Cassino; Liri Mignano Gap, where American You will stay for three nights at Valley Today we look at the four forces fought a tough battle in Return flights to/from Rome are the 4-star Rocca Hotel in battles for Cassino and start by 1943. This is now a preserved available from a selection of U.K. Cassino, situated close to the airports, call or see our website world-famous Montecassino for details. Abbey. In the Pomezia area, you will stay in a minimum 3-star hotel.

Anzio

Air Tour Code: K5IAC Jun 3 2018 £699 Sep 30 2018 £699 Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement from £89; flight supplements where applicable. The Battle of San Pietro Cassino War Cemetery Checked in luggage.

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2 8 days W Jersey – Occupation and Liberation W & the Battle of Britain Air Display by Air from £879 pp

Liberation Square, St. Helier

The Lancaster Bomber

Observation Tower at Les Landes War Tunnels

The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by the Tour Includes Germans during WW2. Our May departure coincides with the 73rd anniversary 3 7 nights hotel with English of Liberation Day, whilst the September departure takes in the annual Battle of breakfast, 1 lunch & 7 evening Britain Air Display. meals 3 Specialist Occupation Guide Day 1 Fly to Jersey where you will by Ian Ronayne, we spend the day with the dramatic backdrop of 3 be met and transferred to your hotel visiting a number of World War II Elizabeth Castle. B,D Occupational visits as for a seven-night stay. Tonight locations, some not normally Day 6 Occupation Walk described begins with a welcome drink and opened to the general public. We A morning guided ‘Occupation Walk’ 3 Return flights to Jersey with introductory talk. D head out to the coast for a guided around St. Helier, taking in all the one checked in suitcase tour of the Noirmont Point Day 2 Jersey War Tunnels many historic sites, memorials and 3 Hotel transfers in Jersey & St. Brelades Bay We visit the Command Bunker, see the German monuments. We end at the award- Jersey War Tunnels – an enormous fortifications at Corbiere, the winning Maritime Museum in St. Key Visits Channel Islands Military Museum Helier and the Occupation Tapestry tunnel complex built by the 3 Jersey War Tunnels Germans as an artillery barracks and Moltke Battery at Les Gallery. Free afternoon. B,D 3 Noirmont Point but converted into a first aid field Landes. B,D Day 7 Free Time Free for you to Command Bunker bunker as an emergency stand-by Day 5 Liberation Day relax and do as you please. B,D 3 Corbiere in 1943. It is now an excellent (May 5th 2018 departure ) Day 8 Transfer to the airport for 3 museum telling the complete story, Join the commemorations that take Channel Islands your return flight to the U.K. B through interactive displays, of the place today as Jersey celebrates 73 Military Museum Occupation. We have an included years since it was liberated from Included Meals: B=Breakfast, 3 St. Brelades Bay German occupation. Full details of L=Lunch, D=Dinner lunch stop at the St. Brelades Bay Flights Hotel, a home to German soldiers the activities taking place will be For full holiday details visit during the Occupation. Continue updated on our website. www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/joc Return flights to/from Jersey are this afternoon with a tour of St. Battle of Britain Day available from a selection of U.K. Brelades Bay with Jersey’s (September 9th 2018 departure ) airports, call or see our website foremost military historian and We head to the People’s Park in St. Your Hotel for details. acclaimed writer, Ian Ronayne. B,L,D Helier where there will be a static You will stay for seven nights at Day 3 Free Time Free for you to display of helicopters. This the 3-star Mayfair Hotel. Located relax and do as you please. B,D afternoon, enjoy the spectacular only a 10-minute stroll from the Day 4 Corbiere & Channel Battle of Britain Air Display which main shopping streets of Island Military Museum Guided takes place over St. Aubin’s Bay Jersey’s delightful capital, this friendly hotel offers a variety of facilities including dining room, coffee shop, lounge and indoor swimming pool with Jacuzzi and Battle of Britain display steam room. There is also an outdoor sun terrace with sun Air Tour Code: K8JOCC beds, tables and chairs with May 5 2018 £879 Sep 9 2018 £899

parasols, a games room and Entrance to museums and gym. The Mayfair also has three places of interest are at extra cost. lifts and ground level access to Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Corbiere Lighthouse the reception. from £179; flight supplements where applicable.

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Behind The Iron Curtain: 9 days W W Spies and Espionage in the Cold War from £869 pp

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With nearly fifty years of the Cold War, spies and espionage on both sides were Tour Includes an important part of the West’s attempt to prevent a Third World War. On this 3 8 nights hotel with fascinating new tour, we cast light into the dark corners of spying behind the continental breakfast Iron Curtain in Germany and look at what might have happened if the Cold War 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide went hot. 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points Day 1 Local departure by coach or the Berlin Wall and also have time as a communications hub to spy on (see page 55 for your nearest) Door-to-Door Service then to for lunch in the area around the west. We then depart for Leipzig Holland and our overnight hotel. Checkpoint Charlie: the Cold War for two nights. B Key Visits front line for the Americans. In the Day 6 Stasi Bunker, Kossa Cold Day 2 Cold War Border 3 Cold War Border at Hötensleben, Berlin We travel to afternoon we look at the Stasi – the War Bunker In Leipzig, we visit the Hötensleben Berlin, stopping at the old Cold War East German security services, Stasi Bunker, the last remaining 3 Spy Museum border at Hötensleben, to see a visiting the Stasi Prison used to Cold War site used by the Stasi in 3 Bridge of Spies preserved section of the Internal detain people condemned by the its original state. After lunchtime in 3 German Border which separated Communist regime and also the Leipzig, we travel out to the Kossa Berlin Wall East and West during the Cold War, Stasi Museum, in the site of their Cold War Bunker, a massive 3 Stasi Bunker seeing tank traps, the wall and headquarters. B Warsaw Pact site with tanks, 3 Kossa Cold War Bunker watch towers. We stay for three Day 4 Bridge of Spies, Berlin hangars and bunkers. B 3 Fulda Gap nights in Berlin at a hotel once used Wall This morning we travel over to Day 7 Fulda Gap Today we look Your Hotels by the Stasi. B “West” Berlin to the Glienicke Bridge, at when the Cold War could have Day 3 Spy Museum, Cold War made famous in the film ‘Bridge of gone hot, travelling to the so-called You will stay for one night at the Berlin On our first day in Berlin – a Spies’ and a location where during ‘Fulda Gap’, where the main thrust 4-star Bilderberg Wolfheze, near city at the dark heart of the Cold the Cold War spies were of a Soviet advance on the West Arnhem, followed by three nights War – we begin at the new Berlin exchanged. We return to central would have taken place. We set the at the 3-star Tryp by Wyndham Spy Museum, spending the Berlin to look at the development of scene, look at possible scenarios Berlin City East. In Leipzig, we morning here and at the nearby the Berlin Wall at Bernauerstrasse, and visit the ‘battlefields that never stay two nights at the 4-star H4 Topography of Terror, where we see seeing the open air memorial site were’. Overnight in Fulda. B Hotel and then one night at the and preserved wall, and Visitors' Day 8 Point Alpha Memorial 4-star Fulda Hotel Mitte. Centre, with time for lunch in this On our last morning, we visit the Overnight stay in Belgium will be area. In the afternoon, we visit the Point Alpha Memorial at the Fulda in a city-style hotel. Teufelsberg: the ‘Devil’s Mountain’, Gap, which commemorates the role which was the site of a Cold War of American and NATO forces in the Evening Meal Packages spy station overlooking Berlin, a site For your convenience, pre-book area, seeing the Visitors Centre and not normally open to the public. B 5 evening meals to be taken at preserved border section. We your hotels in Berlin and Leipzig Day 5 DDR Museum, Leipzig depart for Belgium for an overnight £95 per person. Call for details . On our final morning in Berlin, we stay. B visit the DDR Museum, the museum Day 9 Return home. B of everyday life under the East Silver Service Tour Code: 9GCWV German regime, with some Included Meals: B=Breakfast 28 Jul 2018 £869 fascinating exhibits. You can also For full holiday details visit Entrance to museums and take time to visit the nearby ‘TV www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/gcw places of interest are at extra cost. Tower’, now one of the iconic Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement Glienicke Bridge, Berlin symbols of Berlin, but established from £189.

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Tour Includes 3 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 5 Battlefield walks - each walk is approximately 2-4 hours 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Waterloo Battlefield Key visits Explore the history of Waterloo on one of our popular Walking tours. 3 Wellington Museum Day 1 Local departure by coach, Day 3 Walk 3: We walk the right the battlefield at Wavre, where the 3 Lion Mound then to our hotel in Belgium for a flank seeing where the French Prussians clashed with French 3 Brussels War Museum four-night stay. cavalry charged the British squares Marshal Grouchy’s men. After Your Hotel Day 2 Walk 1: We start with two and Napoleon’s Imperial Guard visiting the impressive private short battlefield walks at Quatre were repulsed. At the new Lion Napoleonic war museum at Ligny You will stay for four nights at the Bras and Ligny, examining the vital Mound Centre you will see the new we go to Plancenoit, where the 3-star Mercure Brussels Airport opening shots to the Waterloo museum. Following lunch you visit Young Guard fought the Prussians. Hotel. Campaign. After lunch we visit the the recently restored Hougoumont We end at the Wounded Eagle Farm, now a museum. Walk 4: We memorial looking at the allied rout Wellington Museum in Waterloo Silver Service Tour Code: 5BWTV and see the memorials to fallen then walk the battlefield to La Belle of Napoleon’s army. B Jul 23 2018 £499 Jun 10 2019 £509 Alliance, looking at the battlefield Day 5 Return home. B officers in St. Joseph’s Church. Aug 27 2018 £499 Jul 22 2019 £519 from the French perspective ending Walk 2: We then walk across the Included Meals: B=Breakfast at Le Caillou, Napoleon’s General battlefield to Frischermount and Entrance to museums and Headquarters. B For full holiday details visit places of interest are at extra cost. Papelotte. Later, we walk across www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bwtv Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance Wellington’s left flank and end the Day 4 We visit the Brussels War essential, call for details; single room supplement from £119. day at La Haye Sainte. B Museum. Walk 5: We then walk C I

R 4 days O T S I Waterloo Re-Enactment Weekend from £349 pp H

Tour Includes 3 3 nights hotel with continental breakfast 3 Specialist Battlefield Guide 3 Battlefield visits as described 3 FREE local joining points (see page 55 for your nearest) Key visits Waterloo Re-Enactment 3 Wellington Museum Join us on a fascinating anniversary tour of the Battle of Waterloo where 3 Hougoumont Farm 3 Napoleonic forces clashed with the British under Wellington and the Prussians Lion Mound 3 under Blucher. Re-enactment displays Jun 22 Local departure by coach, Mound to get a spectacular view of Your Hotel then to our hotel in Belgium for a where history was changed forever. You will stay for three nights at three-night stay. On this weekend, several re-enactor the 3-star Mercure Brussels Jun 23 & 24 We spend two days groups usually set up ‘battle camps’ Airport. The hotel has a lift, exploring the battlefields of and battle re-enactments so you restaurant and bar. Waterloo. We visit the Wellington can see what a British or French Museum in Waterloo, see the key camp of 1815 was like, see drill, camp life and equipment. 2xB farms of La Haye Sainte and Executive Tour Code: 4BWT Hougoumont, and walk the fields Jun 25 Return home. B Jun 22 2018 £349 where the fighting took place. We Included Meals: B=Breakfast visit the Lion Mount Visitors Centre, Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. see the unique Waterloo panorama For full holiday details visit www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/bwt Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance and climb the steps up the Lion essential, call for details; single room supplement Lion Mound Memorial from £89.

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Peninsular War British Cavalry in action Tour Includes Explore selected battlefields and sieges from bloody Storming of San Sebastián 1813, at Urrugne we will commence the Napoleonic Wars in Spain and France. 3 13 nights hotel with overviewing the Battle of Nivelle continental breakfast & 10 14-Day Tour by Coach fighting occurred. Wellington, 1813. Then we drive to the Biarritz evening meals (11 nights surveying the aftermath, observed area for two nights. B,D Day 1 Local departure by coach or hotel with 9 evening meals the corpses ‘literally lying dead in Door-to-Door service, then to the Day 11 Battle of St. Pierre This on the air holiday) Paris area for an overnight stay. their ranks as they stood’. We drive morning we examine the battle of to Guarda for an overnight stay. B,D 3 Specialist Historical Guide Day 2 To the Bordeaux area for an St. Pierre and study the French 3 Historical visits as described overnight stay. B,D Day 7 Fuentes de Onoro Sortie from Bayonne, visit Marshal Fontainebleau This morning we Soult’s Memorial and see the 3 FREE local joining points Day 3 Continue to the outskirts of visit the Battlefield of Fuentes de Citadel. B,D (see page 55 for your nearest – Madrid for an overnight stay. B,D Onoro 1811, one of Wellington’s Day 12 Battle of Orthez Today coach tour only) Day 4 Wellesley’s advanced finest victories. After lunch in we examine the Battle of Orthez ‘outposts This morning we visit Ciudad Rodrigo we study the British 1814 and hear how Wellington was Key Visits Wellesley’s advanced ‘outposts’ success at the ‘breaches’ where you wounded. After lunch, we drive to 3 Badajoz 3 Salamanca along the banks of the Rio Alberche will hear about ‘the question’ of Toulouse. We stay overnight in the 3 Albuera 3 Fuentes de Onoro and hear the story of the fortified ‘who’ accepted the French Limoges area. B,D Casa de Salinas. Ascending the Governor’s surrender? Continue to Day 13 Fontainebleau Today Your Hotels Cerro de Cascajal we view Salamanca for two nights. B,D we travel to the Palace of Throughout the tour you will stay Wellesley’s positions on the Day 8 Salamanca opposite side of the Portina Brook. Fontainebleau to discuss the 1807 in 3 or 4-star, city-style hotels. Today we look at the iconic battle of After lunch, we visit the battlefield and 1814 Treaties of Fontainbleau Salamanca travelling across the memorial sited on the slopes of the (entrance fee extra – approx. 11 Flights battlefield and seeing where the Cerro de Medellin Hills. We stay for Euro). Then to the Paris area for a fighting took place in 1812. B,D Flights to Madrid on the 12-day overnight stay. B two nights in Badajoz. B,D itinerary by air are available from Day 9 Venta del Poza Badajoz, a fortified Day 14 Return home. B Day 5 Badajoz Leaving Salamanca we study the a selection of U.K. airports, call or ‘gateway’ town to Spain fell to Allied Included Meals: B=Breakfast, D=Dinner events surrounding Wellington’s see our website for details. troops in one of the bloodiest 1812 retreat from Burgos. We view For full holiday details visit sieges of the campaign on 6th April For full holiday details visit the engagement at Venta del Poza. www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/epw 1812. We visit Fort San Cristobal www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/kepw We drive to Pamplona where you and view the ‘breaches’. B,D will learn how the fortress 12-Day Tour by Air Day 6 Albuera We visit Albuera, commander reluctantly surrendered Day 1 Fly to Madrid where you will scene of a hard fought victory for to the Spanish. We stay in be met and transferred to your Silver Service Tour Code: 14EPWV the Allies commanded by General Pamplona for one night. B,D overnight hotel. D Oct 8 2018 £1449 Oct 7 2019 £1449 Beresford. Today, we see the ‘Fatal Day 10 Storming of San Days 2 to 12 As per days 4 to14 of Apr 22 2019 £1399 Hill’ and view where the principal the 14-day itinerary by coach. At the Sebastián Today we will stand on By Air & Silver Service end of your tour you will return by the bridge where Wellington wrote a Tour Code: K 12EPWV despatch at the battlefield of coach to either your original Oct 10 2018 £1449 Oct 9 2019 £1449 Sorauren 1813. We will view the departure airport (subject to Apr 24 2019 £1399 availability) or one of our local failure of Marshal Soult’s attempt to Entrance to museums and relieve San Sebastián and joining points (see page 55 for places of interest are at extra cost. Pamplona. We then follow Soult’s details). 11xB,9xD Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement withdrawal north. After studying the Included Meals: B=Breakfast, D=Dinner £369 (coach); £309 (air); flight supplements Memorial to Marshal Soult Bayonne where applicable.

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O 3 days T S I Richard III: The Battle of Bosworth 1485 from pp H £299

Tour Includes 3 2 nights hotel with English breakfast, 1 lunch & 2 evening meals 3 Historical Battlefield Guide 3 Historical visits as described Key Visits 3 Kirby Muxloe 3 Bosworth Battlefield Centre Throne Room Richard III 3 Richard III’s Tomb Discover the exact location of the Battlefield of Bosworth and the burial place Your Hotel of King Richard, and take a look at the War of the Roses. You will stay for two nights at the Day 1 Meet at the Bosworth Hall for treason by Richard III in 1483. newly opened Richard III Visitors’ 3-star standard Britannia Hotel Hotel, Market Bosworth by Return to the hotel for introductory Centre, located on the site where Bosworth Hall. The hotel is 14.00hrs. Afternoon visit to Kirby lecture. Group dinner. D the King’s remains were discovered situated in landscaped gardens Muxloe, the residence of William Day 2 Battle of Bosworth We and Leicester Cathedral, to see and offers a restaurant, bar and Lord Hastings, who was executed drive to Dadlington to visit the site Richard III’s tomb and memorial. leisure club. of the Battle of Bosworth 1485, and We shall have a group lunch in then on to the Bosworth Battlefield Leicester and return to the hotel at Centre to enjoy the exhibition. approx 15:30hrs. Depart at your Group dinner. B,D leisure. B,L Executive Tour Code: H3RBB Day 3 Fotheringhay & Leicester Included Meals: B=Breakfast, Aug 18 2018 £299 In the morning we check out of our L=Lunch, D=Dinner hotel and visit Fotheringhay, the For full holiday details visit Entrance to museums and birthplace of Richard. We will then www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/rbb places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance travel on to Leicester to explore the essential, call for details; single room supplement Richard III’s Tomb from £50. C I

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Tour Includes 3 4 nights hotel with Scottish breakfast & 3 evening meals 3 Excursions & visits as described 3 Regional joining points (call for your nearest)

Edinburgh Military Tattoo Your Hotel You will stay for four nights in a Enjoy the famous pageant combined with stunning scenic sightseeing. 3-star hotel such as the Hallmark Day 1 Regional departure by Silver Day 3 Edinburgh & the Military Day 4 Loch Lomond Join today’s in Irvine, the Bruce in East Service coach, then to Scotland, Tattoo Free time in the morning, included excursion to the ‘bonnie Kilbride, the Popinjay in arriving at our hotel this evening for then to Edinburgh, where you can banks’ of Loch Lomond with pretty Rosebank, or similar. All hotels a four-night stay. D explore the city at your leisure. In villages along its shores, where a have a restaurant and bar. Day 2 Stirling & the Trossachs the evening, we take our seats for picture-postcard view awaits Enjoy an included scenic drive the Edinburgh Military Tattoo around every corner. B,D around the Trossachs followed by (admission included). The Royal Day 5 Gretna Green On our return free time in Stirling. B,D Edinburgh Military Tattoo draws journey, we briefly visit Gretna together a host of creative talent Green, then return to your original from four continents. With departure point. B innovative production, heart- Included Meals: Silver Service Tour Code: 5UEHV stopping sound, imaginative B=Breakfast, D=Dinner Aug 13 2018 £529 graphics, state-of-the-art lighting and specially commissioned For full holiday details visit Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. fireworks, this is a 90-minute show www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/ueh Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance not to be missed. B Loch Lomond essential, call for details; single room supplement from £99.

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This new tour looks at conflict in Vietnam from the Indo-China war to the Tour Includes American involvement from the 1960s until the end of the war in 1975. 3 12 nights hotel with 13 breakfasts, 3 lunches Day 1 Fly to Hanoi. and explore the watch tower where Imperial Citadel. Continue to Hoi An & 2 dinners Day 2 War Remnants Museum you have panoramic view. End the via the Red Beach 2 and My Khe 3 1 night on board a junk Arrive in Hanoi and transfer to your day at Dien Bien City to visit the Beach. Arrive in Hoi An and on to 3 hotel. In the afternoon, we visit French commander’s bunker. B,L our hotel for time at leisure. B Flights to Hanoi and from private War Remnants Museum Day 6 Dien Bien Phu Visit to the Day 12 My Lai Massacre Ho Chi Minh City with one and enjoy a talk with veteran former French fortified hills where We travel towards the former Chu checked in suitcase Nguyen Manh Hiep. fierce fighting happened, before our Lai air base with stops at the Nui 3 Internal flights as described Day 3 Hanoi flight back to Hanoi. B Thanh Battle Memorial. Continue to 3 Airport transfers in Vietnam the site of My Lai massacre. B We visit the Ho Chi Minh Day 7 Ha Long Bay We travel to 3 Fully escorted in Vietnam with Ha Long Bay where we board a junk Fly to Mausoleum, and continue to the Day 13 Cu Chi, Saigon an English-speaking local Military Operations Bunker and D67 for a cruise among the hundreds of Saigon and visit Cu Chi, where we guide and a Leger Battlefield bunker. Later, we visit Hanoi prison, islets of Ha Long Bay with lunch will walk through the jungle area guide Kham Thien Street and the B-52 onboard. Overnight stay among the and see the tunnels. We travel to Ho 3 Memorial Lake. B dramatic limestone peaks rising out Chi Minh City and our hotel. PB Battlefield visits as described Day 4 Dien Bien Phu of the sea. B,L,D Day 14 Ap Bac Battle Site, Boat Key Visits Flight to Dien Bien Phu and onto Day 8 Ha Long Bay Boat Cruise Cruise, Ho Chi Minh City 3 Hanoi 3 Dien Bien Phu our hotel. Afternoon visit to the Dien Spend the morning cruising through We visit the major Battle site of Ap 3 3 Bien Phu Victory Museum, Dien the limestone cliffs and emerald Bac. We arrive in My Tho and enjoy Ha Long Dong Hoi Bien Phu War Cemetery and the waters of Ha Long Bay, then a boat cruise along the river. After 3 Hue and DMZ 3 Hoi An French Soldier War Memorial. B,D transfer to Hanoi. B lunch, we visit the Secret 3 My Lai 3 Khe Sanh 3 Day 5 Muong Phang Day 9 Dong Hoi Flight to Dong Ammunitions Bunker and War Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City Museum. B,L Headquarter, Christian de Hoi where we visit Khe Gat Air Strip, Flights Castries’ Bunker We visit the Dien Eight Ladies Cave, Ho Chi Minh Day 15 Transfer to Tan Son Nhat Bien Phu headquarters at Muong Trails, and Paradise Cave. PB airport for your overnight flight to Flights to/from Vietnam are available from Heathrow, call or Phang, explore tunnels, see the Day 10 Hue, DMZ Travel to Hue the U.K. B see our website for details. bunkers of General Vo Nguyen Giap, and visit significant war sites Day 16 Arrival in the U.K. around the former Demilitarised Included Meals: B=Breakfast, PB =Packed Air Tour Code: K16VIE Zone (DMZ). Our first stop is the Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner Mar 10 2019 £3495 Vinh Moc Tunnels and continue to For full holiday details visit the Hien Luong Bridge which, for Entrance to museums and www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/kvie many years, served as a symbol of places of interest are at extra cost. the divided nation. We then visit the Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance Your Hotels essential, call for details; single room supplement former US Marine Base at Khe from £650; flight supplements where applicable. Sanh. Our next stop is the Citadel, You will stay in Hanoi, Hoi An, Ho before seeing the Highway of Chi Minh City, Dien Bien Phu, Deposit £800pp. You can secure your place on this tour for a Terror. We continue to Hue and to Dong Hoi and Hue, with an low deposit of just £300pp. A further our hotel. B overnight stay on a junk in Ha payment of £500pp is due 20 weeks before departure – see our website for details.The Long Bay. For full hotel details, Day 11 Hoi An Take a boat cruise balance is payable 10 weeks before to visit Thien Mu Pagoda, then the visit our website. departure. Payment dates will be advised on Vietnam War Museum your confirmation invoice.

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Accompanied by our Specialist guide follow the story of the Zu lu battles in To ur Inc ludes K wazulu-Natal, ‘the last British outpost’. W e also look at the ke y e ve nts of the 3 9 nights hotel with bre akfast, Anglo-Boer W ar, the battles, Guerrilla warfar e and why the Boers won the peace 9 e ve ning meals if not the war. 3 2 br eakfasts & 2 e ve ning meals in flight Da y 1 Fly o ve rnight fro m Heathro w ex cellent T alana Museum Z ulus wher e the British once again 3 t o Johannesbur g. D* displa ying the ev e nts of the Anglo- under estimated the enemy and paid Outbound scheduled flight to B,D B,D Johannesburg re turning fr om Da y 2 In Johannesbur g yo u will be Boer W ar . a hea vy price. met and transfe r ed t o the t own of Da y 6 Ladysmith & Colenso Da y 9 Zu luland Tr a ve l deep int o Durban via Johannesburg Dundee and the 4-star Ro ya l W e head t o Colenso, one of the the heart of Z ululand seeing wher e with one checke d in suitcase Country Inn for five nights. B*,D gr eat battles of the Anglo-Boer W ar . the Prince Imperial of Fr ance was 3 Hotel porterage for 1 bag Da ys 3 & 4 Isandlwana W e mak e our wa y on foot t o the killed in a Z ulu ambush. Continue t o per person summit of Spioenkop wher e our the famed va lley of the Z ulu Kings & Rork e ’ s Drift A t Isandlwana we 3 Fu lly escorted in South Africa guide r ecr eates the tragic battle and t o the Mt onjaneni Lodge in will see the battlefield wher e 24,000 with a Specialist Historical between ‘Boer and Brit’ o ve r nine Ulundi for two nights. B,D Z ulus out-manoeuvr ed and wiped Guide out almost an entir e British da ys in January 1900. B,D Da y 10 Ulundi W e see the 3 Historical visits as described Regiment ( The 24th) in less than Da y 7 Vo ortrekk ers Visit the battlefields and experience the half an hour! This hist oric site monument dedicated t o the hist ory aro und Ulundi. The battle at K e y Visits marks the British colonial army’s ‘V oortr ekk ers’ who, va stly Ulundi was t o be short live d, not 3 Rorke ’ s Drift biggest defe at and was their first outnumber ed, hero ically defe nded only was it t o be the final battle for encounter with the warriors of the themselve s against a Z ulu attack. Chief Cetewa yo and his warriors but 3 Isandlwana Z ulu nation in 1879. Rork e ’s Drift is Visit Lancaster Hill, scene of an was also the br eak up of the Z ulu 3 Colenso engagement between the Lancaster nation. B,D the site wher e 139 British soldiers, 3 Ulundi including injur ed men, held the Regiment and the Boers. Continue Da y 11 Tr a ve l t o Durban for an r e-supply depot against 4,500 Z ulu t o Natal Spa Hot Springs and afternoon flight t o Johannesbur g Yo ur Hotels warriors for 11.5 hours befor e Leisur e Resort in the Z ululand for and connect with the ev e ning All hotels ar e of a minimum managing t o ward them off. 2xB,2xD two nights. B,D o ve rnight flight t o London. D* Eu ro pean 3-star standar d and Da y 5 Dundee Spend time t oda y Da y 8 Hlobane Re-live the ro ute of Da y 12 Morning arriva l at London ha ve a r estaurant or bar on site in and aro und Dundee seeing the the British for ces at Hlobane b y the Heathro w Airport. B* or nearb y . Included Meals: B=Br eakfast, D=Dinner Flights * Meals mark ed with an asterisk ar e Flights t o Johnannesbur g, tak en in flight r eturning fro m Durban, via F or full holida y details visit Johannesbur g ar e a va ilable fro m www .legerbattlefields.co.uk/ksab Heathro w , call or see our website for details.

Air T our Code: K12SAB Deposit £900pp. No v 3 2018 £2749 Jan 24 2019 £2749 Yo u can secur e yo ur place on this t our for a low deposit of just £300pp. A further Entrance to museums and pa yment of £600pp will need t o be paid t o us 30 weeks befor e departur e and the balance places of inter est ar e at extra cost. 15 weeks befor e departur e. P a yment dates Extras: optional ex cursions; tra ve l insurance Isandlwana will be advised on yo ur confirmation invo ice. essential, call for details; single ro om supplement fro m £225; flight supplements wher e applicable.

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The years 1861 to 1865 saw America torn between allegiances in the Tour Includes deadliest war in the history of the country. 3 7 nights hotel sharing a twin room on a room-only basis Day 1 Fly to Washington D.C. bloodiest one-day battle in the longest in American warfare. 3 where you will be met and American history. Onwards to Travel to nearby Richmond for an Airport transfers transferred to your hotel for a two- Harper’s Ferry to look at the raid by overnight stay. 3 Return flights to night stay. John Brown. Overnight in Harper’s Day 7 Arlington Cemetery Washington D.C. with one Day 2 Washington D.C. We take Ferry. We return to Washington for an checked in suitcase an included half-day city tour by Day 5 Lynchburg, Virginia travel overnight stay, arriving late 3 Hotel porterage for coach including an introduction to to Lynchburg, a transport centre morning. Spend the afternoon in 1 bag per person and hospital for Confederate the capital or join our included visit Civil War history at the Museum of 3 Fully escorted in the USA by American History. Spend the soldiers, and scene of the Battle of to Arlington National Cemetery. a Specialist Historical Guide afternoon at leisure. Lynchburg in 1864. We take a tour Designated a military cemetery on 3 Historical visits as described Day 3 Gettysburg We travel to of the town before spending a night June 15 1864, veterans and military Gettysburg for a tour of the famous here. casualties from every one of the Key Visits battlefield. The Battle of Gettysburg Day 6 Appomattox, Petersburg nation’s wars since the American 3 Washington D.C. in July 1863 is often quoted as the & Richmond We travel first to Civil War are interred in the 3 Civil War’s turning point. Abraham Appomattox, where General Lee cemetery. During the guided visit Gettysburg 3 Lincoln, in November of the same surrendered to General Ulysses S. you will see many of Arlington’s Antietam Battlefield year, delivered his famous Grant, which signalled the end of famous memorials, including the 3 Arlington Cemetery Eternal Flame of the Kennedy grave, Gettysburg Address here. In the the Southern States’ attempt to Your Hotels evening, join our included ‘Ghosts of create a separate nation. We visit and the world-famous Tomb of the Gettysburg’ tour. Stay overnight in the Museum of the Confederacy Unknowns. All hotels are of a minimum Gettysburg. and then on to the Petersburg Day 8 Today we head to European 3-star standard and have a restaurant or bar on site Day 4 Antietam Battlefield Battlefield (admission included), Manassas/Bull Run, where two or nearby. & Harper’s Ferry Included visit to where the Union Army held the battles took place, before the battlefield of Antietam, the Confederates in a 292-day siege, transferring to the airport for the return overnight flight home. Flights Day 9 Arrive in the U.K. Return flights to/from Washington D.C. are available For full holiday details visit from Heathrow, call or see our www.legerbattlefields.co.uk/kacw website for details.

Air Tour Code: K9ACW Sep 3 2018 £2099

Entrance to museums and places of interest are at extra cost. Extras: optional excursions; travel insurance essential, call for details; single room supplement from £489; ESTA application fee; flight supplements where applicable. IMPORTANT NOTE: ESTA is required prior to travelling, please visit the ESTA Website for more details. Applications may be submitted at any time prior to travel, however, it is recommended that applications are submitted no less than 72 hours Gettysburg Battlefield General Ulysses S. Grant prior to travel.

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By asking us to make your booking, you confirm The transport we provide to take you to and from you have had access and agree to the full Booking Convenient coach joining points Conditions and General Information which you should For your convenience and comfort we offer the interchange may include Executive, Silver read. hundreds of joining points across England, Service or Luxuria coaches, as well as minibus, For all holidays which do not include any flights, your National Express, Megabus, or, where contract will be with Leger Holidays Limited which is a Scotland and Wales. And to make sure your member of ABTA (V3582). journey to the interchange is as direct as circumstances require, taxi or train. For all holidays which include flights, your contract will be Occasionally, on shorter journeys, your transfer with Leger Air Holidays Limited which holds ATOL No. possible, we guarantee there will be a maximum 3880. of five stops to pick up other guests. 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For travel arrangements At the interchange provided by any air, sea, inland waterway or rail carrier Stay overnight forming part of your holiday to which any international near Dover and At the interchange, our trained team takes your convention or EU regulation applies, our liability will be luggage from the transfer vehicle to the main limited as if we were the carrier in question entitled to rely park for FREE on the applicable convention or regulation (for example, Why not go the night before your tour coach whilst you use the refreshment areas. the Montreal Convention, EC Regulation 889/2002 on Air Then you board your tour coach and travel to Carrier Liability, EC Regulation 392/2009 on the liability of holiday for a relaxing start? 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