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.

Series Two (1997)

Books

BBC Books published a book, written by Holmes, to accompany each 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.