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The guide directory details all Guild Accredited Members. Each of these has passed our Accreditation Programme – so you can be sure they are all high quality guides and will give you a great tour!

You can filter by battle/campaign or country and then click on the name of an Accredited Guide to read their biography. Most Accredited Guides have contact details by which you can contact them directly. If not, or if you want to pass a message to them, please contact them via the Guild Secretary via our Contacts Page.

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All American War of Independence[1]Post WWII[0]

Yugoslav Wars (1990s)[1]

Cornwall in the Civil War[1]Antiquity

Viking battles in Yorkshire[1]Roman Invasion of Britain[2]Roman Invasion of Germany[1]

Battle of Teutoberger Forest[1]

Middle Ages[10]

Poitiers[2]Edward I’s conquest of North Wales[2]Battle of Lewes[2]Bosworth[2]Agincourt[4]Towton[2]Crecy[3]Hastings Campaign[3]Norman Conquest of England[3]

Fulford[2]Stanford Bridge[3]Hastings[2]

The 100 Years War[6]

Sluys[1]Poitiers[1]

British Civil Wars[7]

Sedgemoor[1]The Boyne[1]Culloden[2]Owen Glendower's Revolt[1]Wars of the Roses[6]English Civil War[8]

Marston Moor[1]London in the Civil War[1]

Monmouth Rebellion[2]The Jacobite Rebellions[3]

Marlborough's campaigns[2]

Blenheim[1]Minden[1]

Napoleonic Wars[19]British Colonial Conflicts[3]

Boer War[2]American War of Independence[4]Seven Years' War[2]

Battle of Minden[3]

Anglo/Zulu War[4]

Isandlwana[1]Rorke's Drift[2]Eshowe[1]Gingindlovu[1]Hlobane[1]Ulundi[1]

Crimean War[2]American Civil War[3]

Bull Run[1]Antietam[1]Gettysburg[1]Monocacy[1]

Franco-Prussian War[1]Austro-Prussian War[1]

Koniggratz[1]

20th Century

Falklands War[2]First World War[51]Second World War[53]

Holocaust[2]Auschwitz[1]Fall of Berlin[9]Operation Amherst[2]Ardennes[13]Hürtgen Forest[3]Battle of the Bulge[14]Bastogne[7]Band of Brothers[3]Operation Dragoon[1]Ortona[1]Lorraine Campaign[1]Aachen[1]Combined Bomber Offensive[2]Battle of Overloon[1]Fall of France[9]Arras[5]Battle of Calais[5]UK Home Front[1]Operation Frankton[1]Monte Cassino[3]Cassino[11]German Airborne Invasion of Crete[1]The Great Patriotic War[1]

Eastern Front - Estonia[1]

Kursk[1]30 Corps[1]Operation Husky[4]Battle of Sicily[6]Dunkirk[13]Battle of Britain[2]Bruneval Raid[3]Dieppe[10]Operation Jubilee[5]Arnhem[25]Operation Market Garden[18]Eindhoven & Nijmegen[11]Operation Berlin[8]Operation Aintree[1]Gothic Line[3]Gustav Line[2]Battle of Halbe[2]Liberation of the Netherlands[8]London Blitz[2]Normandy Preparations in UK[5]D-Day[22]Operation Overlord[9]Normandy Landings[24]Normandy Campaign[9]Norway 1940 Campaign[3]Operation Sea Lion[1]The Siege of Malta[3]Operation Avalanche[3]Salerno[5]Operation Chariot[2]St Nazaire & Dieppe[3]Rhine Crossing[7]Operation Infatuate[3]Operation Blockbuster[3]Operation Veritable[6]Operation Plunder[5]Scheldt Estuary - Breskens Pocket & Walcheren[6]Operation Shingle[3]Battle of Anzio[7]Anzio[4]Reichswald Forest[4]Peenemunde[2]Krakow[1]

Cold War[9]Spanish Civil War[2]Oman[1]

Edwin Popken

Accredited Guide Number: 93

I am a Military Historian from The Netherlands, but with a master’s degree in Military History from the University of Birmingham, UK. For more than 25 years I have read, studied WW2 through archival research and site visits. Not only the military aspect, but also the experience by individuals, soldiers and civilians alike. Since the early 2000s, I have shared my knowledge with different groups of people, taking them to these locations and sharing the stories.

Professionally, I focus on World War II operations in North Western Europe between September 1944 and March 1945. My main interest are the operations aiming to get the Allies across the Rhine from the North Sea to Switzerland, and Germans measures and operations to prevent this. My main areas of expertise are Operation Market Garden, the Battle of the Scheldt, the liberation of Brabant, Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge, Operation Veritable, and the 1945 Allied Rhine crossings. A special theme I cover is the experience of Easy Company, 506 PIR, 101st Airborne from The Netherlands to Zell am See.

Since 2012, I have run my own research and guiding company, called Battlefield Discovery. Through my company I cooperate with several Dutch museums and the National World War Two Museum in New Orleans, USA, and am a partner of both Brabant Remembers and Airborne Region in The Netherlands.

Besides being a member of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides with badge no. 93, I am a member of the Liberation Route Europe Guide Network.

Battles Ardennes Arnhem Band of Brothers...Bastogne Battle of Overloon Battle of the Bulge Eindhoven & Nijmegen Hürtgen Forest Liberation of the Netherlands Operation Aintree Operation Berlin Operation Blockbuster Operation Market Garden Operation Plunder Operation Veritable Reichswald Forest Rhine Crossing Scheldt Estuary - Breskens Pocket & Walcheren WWII

Countries Belgium France Germany...Luxembourg Netherlands

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Emailedwin@battlefielddiscovery.nlTel.+31 (0)6 2515 7463Websitewww.battlefielddiscovery.com

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Edwin Popken

Accredited Guide Number: 93