Scheduled Tours to France

All of our forthcoming Scheduled Tours to France are listed below.

Tunnellers on the Western Front Starts 12th June 2020 (4 days) Expert Historian - Simon Jones
Simon Jones, acclaimed author of ‘Underground Warfare 1914-18’, has conducted painstaking research into this little-known aspect of the Great War to create this tour especially for TCE. find out more and book
Discovering the Western Front Starts 13th July 2020 (5 days) Expert Historian - Dr Bruce Cherry
Visits to battlefields such as Mons, Ypres, the Somme and Arras will put the whole war into perspective geographically, chronologically, strategically, tactically and technologically. find out more and book
D-Day: Operation Overlord Starts 17th July 2020 (5 days) Expert Historian - Dr Simon Trew
On the morning of Tuesday 6th June the largest amphibious invasion in history breached the defences of the Atlantic Wall, opening the way for the Second Front and contributing to the final defeat of Hitler's Third Reich. find out more and book
The Franco-Prussian War 1870 Starts 22nd July 2020 (8 days) Expert Historian - Major General John Drewienkiewicz CB CMG
The Franco-Prussian War was the largest and most important war in Europe since Waterloo, changing the face of the continent for the next fifty years. find out more and book
Medics and Padres Starts 30th July 2020 (4 days) Expert Historian - Simon Jones
Because of its industrial nature, the number of casualties in the First World War was on a scale never seen before. However, if you were wounded in the Great War your chances of survival were high, that is if you could be evacuated into the casualty system quickly. find out more and book
The Doughboys Turn the Tide Starts 22nd September 2020 (5 days) Expert Historian - Dr Bruce Cherry
The involvement of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), more affectionately known as Doughboys, is much overlooked and forgotten (especially in Britain) but during this tour we will explore the ground and hear the stories of their crucial and sometimes heroic contribution to the final victory. find out more and book
1918: The Hundred Days Starts 27th September 2020 (4 days) Expert Historian - Dr Bruce Cherry
1918 was a busy year on the Western Front. The first half of the year saw both British and French Armies on the back foot, close to collapse and reeling from what were to be the last German offensives before the entry of the USA into the war. find out more and book
The Battle of Verdun Spring 2021 (5 days) The Verdun battlefield is dramatically and physically different to those on the Western Front. It straddles both sides of the River Meuse, which flows through wonderful scenery and we gain some magnificent views from the dominating ridge lines that surround Verdun. find out more and book
The Hundred Years War Spring 2021 (8 days) This is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy a tour of the Loire and Pas-de-Calais in May, when the rolling countryside and imposing Gothic architecture are at their picturesque best. find out more and book
The French Revolution Spring 2021 (4 days) This wonderful Revolutionary tour of Paris and Versailles is mostly enjoyed on foot and by metro. And whilst many of the locations will be familiar to you, many of the events and stories associated with them may not be. find out more and book
The War Poets Summer 2021 (4 days) The War Poets created some of the most powerful expressions of the human realities of the Great War which were instrumental in leading to a fundamental re-appraisal of the utility of war after the armistice and have moved generations of readers ever since. find out more and book
First & Last Shots Summer 2021 (4 days) By a poignant quirk of fate, British forces fired their first and last shots of the Great War in the Belgian city of Mons. Today, the first and last British casualties from 1914 and 1918 lie buried, together with their former German foes, in the remarkable St. Symphorien Cemetery. find out more and book
Wellington Over The Pyrenees Spring 2021 (9 days) Expert Historian - Col Nick Lipscombe
This tour, a natural progression from our popular ‘Wellington in Spain’ and ‘Sharpe’s Peninsula’ tours, is led by Nick Lipscombe. Our route roughly follows the Great North Road from Madrid towards the great French border fortress of Bayonne and thence eastwards to Toulouse. find out more and book
William the Conqueror Winter 2021 (8 days) Straddling either side of the English Channel this tour visits a plethora of battlefields, castles, abbeys and churches to tell the fascinating story of William the Conqueror and his victory at the Battle of Hastings in the year 1066. find out more and book
The Hundred Days Summer 2022 (8 days) Shortly after his first abdication, in an emotional farewell to his Old Guard at Fontainebleau on 20 April 1814, Napoleon departed for exile on Elba. But less than a year later, in what became known as ‘The Hundred Days’ he was back in Paris. find out more and book
Battling through the Norman Bocage Summer 2022 (6 days) This tour focuses on some of the most bitter and costly fighting of the entire north-west European campaign. It follows the routes taken by American forces as they smashed through the German coastal defences at Omaha Beach and thrust inland towards the key communications centre of St-Lô. find out more and book

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Tours to France - Future Planning

We intend to run all of the following tours in the near future. Final dates and prices are yet to be confirmed. Register your interest and we will contact you as soon as these tours become available.

The Battles of the Marne and Aisne The extant farms and villages where French defeated the German advance in 1914, the Chemin des Dames and Champagne sectors boast bunkers, caves and ghost villages from 1915-1918 whilst the preserved Belleau Wood commemorates the epic fight by US Marines in 1918. find out more and register interest
The Romans in Provence In the company of the leading Oxford Roman historian and author we discover some of the finest remains of the Roman Empire at Nimes, Arles, Orange and Glanum. Superbly preserved amphitheatres, baths, aqueducts, temples and private villas. find out more and register interest
Vestibule of Hell In early August 1944 both sides were approaching the endgame in the battle of Normandy. The Allies’ effort finally broke the stalemate around Caen and gave the opportunity to encircle the Germans, but not without cost. find out more and register interest

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