Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide Books And Maps
Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide Books and Battlefield Maps - the very best
Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide Books And Maps
Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide Books And Maps

Illustrated battlefield guide books and maps of the First & Second World Wars Western Front & Gallipoli. Updated April 2008


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Arnhem and all the US and British air and land operations Memorials museums cemeteries Oosterbeek. Pictures, routes, history and tourist information.

Normandy D-Day

battlefield guide book

All the beaches

and drop zones

Market-Garden Arnhem

battlefield guide book

& the whole Corridor

Ypres Salient Passchendaele Menin Gate Zonnebeke museums memorials cemeteries etc. Pictures, routes, history and tourist information.

Somme including US & Australians

battlefield guide book

Ypres Salient

all battles

battlefield guide book

Gallipoli landing beaches Suvla Bay Helles Cannakale memorials museums cemeteries Istanbul Sari Bair. Pictures, routes, history and tourist information.

Gallipoli

plus colour map

battlefield guide book

Western Front: North

13 battlefields

battlefield guide book

 With Western Front - North this book effectively covers the entire Western Front. Pictures, routes, history and tourist information.Western Front - South includes,Marne, St Mihiel, Aisne, Verdun, Somme, Chemin des Dames, Cambrai, Kaiser's Offensive, Ourcq, Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, Champagne, Meuse Argonne, Hindenburg Line. Somme and Ypres battlefield tours for those with little time

Western Front: South

12 battlefields

battlefield guide book

Pocket Guides to Ypres and to the Somme

 

Succinct but telling essays with portraits of 25 poets of the Great War -  Edmund Blunden Vera Brittain Rupert Brooke Leslie Coulson Gilbert Frankau Wilfrid Gibson Robert Graves Julian Grenfell Ivor Gurney Alan Patrick Herbert William Noel Hodgson Francis Ledwidge Roland Leighton

Kipling Biography

Was it really John?

World War 1 Poets

25 of them with pics

Biography of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather the cartoonist who drew the most famous cartoon of the First World War - the Better 'Ole.Fully illustrated with details of collectables Clear map showing precise locations of hundreds of memorials and D Day battle lines and allied and German formations -  SWORD GOLD JUNO OMAHA UTAH museums ,cemeteries, bunkers, modern roads.

Bairnsfather Biography

Fully illustrated

Collectables listing

Normandy Battlefield Map - D Day

400 memorials

This is the ONLY map that shows the whole Market Garden Corridor with airborne drop zones and the progress of the land advance. Arnhem Oosterbeek Airborne Cemetery museums memorials cemeteries modern roads This is THE map for those visiting the Somme battlefield. All museums, memorials, cemeteries are clearly and accurately marked. Thiepval, Albert, Delville Wood, and detailed battle lines are all included in four colours.

Market-Garden Battlefield Map

250 memorials

Somme Battlefield Map

100 memorials

Major and Mrs Holt's Battle Map of Gallipoli shows the whole Peninsula plus details of Helles, ANZAC Cove, Suvla bay and the minefields, Sari Bair, Cannakale and Troy. In four colours with indexes it is the only modern map to give such detail

Ypres Battlefield Map

100 memorials

and battle lines

Gallipoli Battlefield Map

70 memorials

15cm high bust of a typical World War One soldier based on Bairnsfather's Old Bill car mascot which makes a fine gift or paperweight.

 

 

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Marker Stones

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A FREE BATTLEFIELD MAP

With every battlefield guide book ordered you may choose a free map (worth at least £3 sterling) in addition to the fold-out map wrapped in the guide.

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WHAT THE GUIDE BOOKS LOOK LIKE
Each has over 270 pages and around 200 colour photos of the battlefields today as well as in-text sketch maps. Most have a wrapped fold-out large map. Detailed indexes, limpback 21cm X 15cm

WHAT THE BOOKS TELL YOU
Just about everything you need to know. Where the battlefields are, how to get there and where you might stay. Where the memorials, museums, cemeteries, bunkers, trench lines … etc are. Concise histories of the battles introduce the books, then detailed itineraries guide you around the battlefields with distances, timings, poetry and pictures, plus stories of bravery, and actions.

WHAT THE FOLD-OUT MAPS SHOW
The battlefields in detail and in four colours. All the locations in the guide books are map referenced to, and shown on, the maps. Battle lines and, where appropriate, fighting formations, are shown plus detailed colour coded indexes with information on people, memorials, museums and cemeteries. Click on a map image to take a look.

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April 2008

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These battlefield maps are designed and produced by us.

They are unique and no other maps provide the detailed information found on them.

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