War Walks
War Walks is a BBC television documentary series presented by the historian Richard Holmes, then Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University. The series is about battlefields (though it could be questioned whether the Blitz had a battlefield), which are visited by Holmes, and is also about the corresponding battles. The series covers twelve battles. Both the first and the second series are about battles fought by British or English forces (sometimes with foreign allies). Nine of these were fought against German, French or Norman forces. The other three are from British or English civil wars. The first series is about six battles fought in the region sometimes called the fatal avenue in the north of France and the south of Belgium. The second series is about six battles fought in the British Isles, and, in the case of Dunkirk, in the English Channel. The series included descriptions of the battles, the events leading up to them and the events resulting from them, and the battlefields. Episodes

Series One (1996)
This series is by BBC Bristol. Agincourt (1415) (26 July 1996)
 Waterloo (1815) (2 August 1996)
 Mons and Le Cateau (1914) (9 August 1996)
 The Somme (1916) (16 August 1996)
 Arras (1940) (23 August 1996)
 Operation Goodwood (1944) (30 August 1996)

Series Two (1997)
 Hastings (1066) (14 November 1997)
 Bosworth Field (1485) (21 November 1997)
 Naseby (1645) (28 November 1997)
 The Boyne (1690) (5 December 1997)
 Dunkirk (1940) (12 December 1997)
 The Blitz (1940–41) (19 December 1997)

Books
BBC Books published a book, written by Holmes, to accompany each series:
War Walks: From Agincourt to Normandy, published in 1996, accompanies the first series. By 28 September 1996, this book had spent nine weeks in the "Hardbacks" section of "The Times Bestseller List". It was ranked sixth in the list of hardback bestsellers published in The Times on 31 August 1996. It was included, in particular, in the top twenty hardback bestsellers in the lists published in The Times on 31 August and 7, 14, 21 and 28 September 1996, with sales of a total of 2,168 copies reported in the lists during those five weeks. This book has been called "excellent". War Walks 2: From the Battle of Hastings to the Blitz, published in 1997, accompanies the second series. The two books were published in a single volume under the title Complete War Walks: British Battles from Hastings to Normandy by BBC World Wide Ltd in 2003. References 
Adam Sweeting, "The War Whores" in "Channel Surfing", The Guardian, 28 February 1998, p 18.
 http://homepage.eircom.net/%257Eodyssey/Quotes/History/War_Walks.html#WarWalks2
 http://www.tvfactual.co.uk/
"War Walks". BBC. External links
 

1996 British television series debuts
1997 British television series endings
1990s British documentary television series
Documentary television series about war
English-language television shows
BBC television documentaries about history during the 20th Century
BBC television documentaries about history during the 18th and 19th centuries
BBC television documentaries about history during the 16th and 17th centuries
BBC television documentaries about medieval history