WWII
The First Hour on Omaha Beach
By Dr. Nigel Ashcroft · 8 min read
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Small-group tours to the great sites of history, from the D-Day beaches to ancient Rome, each one led by a historian who knows the whole story.
For more than twenty-five years we have taken curious travelers to the places where history happened, always with a real historian at your side.
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History, told by the people who study it
Led by real historians
Not a tour manager reading notes. Your guide is a working historian who has spent a career on the subject, and travels with you the whole way.
Access you can't get alone
Private and after-hours visits, archives, and meetings with local historians, veterans and descendants. The room behind the rope.
Small groups, done well
No more than eighteen travelers, good hotels, and every detail handled so you can focus on the history in front of you.
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Meet the historians
Every departure is led by a scholar of its subject. Here are a few of the people who travel with our tours.
Dr. Nigel Ashcroft
WWII · Western Europe
Author of three books on the Normandy campaign; twenty years leading battlefield tours.
Prof. Hélène Rivard
Ancient Greece & Rome
Classical archaeologist who has excavated across Italy and the eastern Mediterranean.
Col. James Prentiss
American Civil War
Retired US Army officer and military historian; a lifetime walking these fields.
Dr. Marieke Vandersteen
Medieval Europe
Historian of the medieval church and its cathedrals, from Chartres to Cologne.
What our travelers say
Standing on Omaha Beach while a historian who had interviewed the men who landed there told us what happened, hour by hour, is something I will never forget.
Michael R. · The D-Day Beaches, 2025 · Ohio, USA
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