6 V i s i t www.theculturalexperience.com C a l l 0345 475 1815 OUR GUIDES Our Guides are selected for three attributes: all are accomplished experts in their own fields – whether as acclaimed academics, proven historians or distinguished soldier practitioners. They must also be able to tell their story in an interesting and engaging manner ‘in the field’ – and be prepared to continue the discussion over dinner in the evenings. It is this combination of expert, raconteur and host that makes our guides special – and is key to The Cultural Experience brand success. Stuart R Dempsey is a history graduate of Mount Saint Mary’s university and is now in his fourteenth year as a Gettysburg licenced battlefield guide. Stuart conducts tours of several battlefields of the American War of Independence and Civil War in North America, and of Second World War sites in Europe, including Berlin, Normandy, and the Battle of the Bulge. Dr Bruce Cherry has had a varied career as university lecturer and journalist. His doctorate is in military history and he has been guiding tours of the First and Second World War European battlefields for over 30 years. His latest book They didn’t want to die VirginsexaminingsexandmoraleintheBritish Army on the Western Front was published in January 2016. Professor Tim Cole teaches history at the University of Bristol and is an expert on the history, representation and memorialisation of the Holocaust. A popular guide on this specialist subject, he is the author of Images of the Holocaust (1999), Holocaust City (2003) and Traces of the Holocaust (2011) and has just completed a book on Holocaust Landscapes. Tim Clayton MA, FSA is the author of a number of books on the Napoleonic period including the award-winning Trafalgar: the Men, the Battle, the Storm, Tars: the Men who madeBritainRuletheWaves,andWaterloo:Four DaysthatChangedEurope’sDestiny,shortlisted for the British Army Military Book of the Year in 2015. He is an expert on the visual print culture of the eighteenth century and was co-curator of the British Museum exhibition Bonaparte and the British in 2015. Major Gordon Corrigan MBE was an officer in the Gurkhas before retiring from the Army in 1998. He is now a military historian and author of numerous books. His television appearances include The Gurkhas, Napoleon’s Waterloo and Battlefield Detectives. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Universities of Birmingham and Kent, a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a member of the British Commission for Military History. Dr Waitman Beorn is a Lecturer in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is also a consultant and writer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Dr Beorn was previously Director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum. His first book, Marching Into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus, was published in 2014 and won the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize for best first book from Harvard Press. Dr Martin Boycott-Brown A childhood fascination with Napoleon was reawakened whilst Martin was living near Verona, leading to eight years of research on Napoleon's first campaign in Italy. He walked battlefields, spoke to locals, found previously ignored Italian and German sources, went back to earlier French theorists to better understand how Napoleon worked, and strove to find eye-witness sources, all of which proved far more interesting than the myths perpetuated in so many books. It is their authenticity which forms the basis of Martin’s approach. Cliff Churgin is a licensed Israeli guide specialising in the battlefields of Israel as well as being an author and co-producer of “Battlefields” a multimedia CD-Rom on the history of warfare. He has also written about the Assyrian invasion of Judea for Ancient Warfare Magazine. A veteran of the Givati Brigade, Cliff has also written about Israeli politics and culture for McClatchy Newspapers.