Robert Kershaw has completed and led a substantial number of battlefield tours across three continents – America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. These were completed both in and out of uniform. He is readily available to speak on a fee paid or arranged basis depending upon research and travel to virtually any battlefield site. Any site is plausible, ancient or modern, depending upon interest and the research required.
He has experience of and completed battlefield tours at the following locations:
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
The battle of Fredericksburg 1862
The battle of Chancellorsville 1863
The battle of Gettysberg 1863
THE AMERICAN INDIAN WARS (Research for ‘Red Sabbath’)
The Fetterman Massacre 1866
The battle of the Rosebud River 1876
The battle of the Little Bighorn 1876
THE ZULU WAR
The battle of Blood River 1838
The battle of Isandlwana 1879
The battle of Rorke’s Drift 1879
THE BOER WAR
The battle of Majuba Hill 1998
Colenso and Ladysmith 1899
The battle of Spioen Kop 1900
WORLD WAR II
The capture of the Belgian fortress at Eben Emael May 1940.
The fall of Calais and Dunkirk May-Jun 1940. (Research for ‘Never Surrender’).
The fall of Crete May 1940.
Operation ‘Barbarossa’ – the German assault on Russia and Moscow 1941-2. (Research for ‘War Without Garlands’.)
The battle of Stalingrad 1941-2.
The battle of Kursk 1943. (Research for ‘Tank Men’).
D-Day 6th June 1944 - the parachute landing zones and beaches. (Research for ‘D-Day’).
The battle of Normandy 1944. (Research for ‘Tank Men’).
The ‘Market-Garden’ Airborne Corridor and Arnhem. (Research for ‘It Never Snows in September’).
The Warsaw Uprising 1944.
The German Ardennes offensive Dec 1944.
The battle of Berlin 1945.
A battlefield tour conducted immediately after the first Gulf War.
A view of the Russian steppe bordering Stalingrad taken during a recent tour.
A briefing by a Russian veteran at the Kursk battlefield