Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide Books And Maps
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 Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide Books And Maps - World War 1 and World War 2
Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide Books And Maps

Illustrated battlefield guide books and battlefield maps of the First & Second World Wars Western Front & Gallipoli. Updated July 2010
 
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Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide Books And Maps

Ideal Birthday presents for those interested in military history

FIRST WORLD WAR POETS

Under

Construction

We give a brief look below at each of the poets in our book. Just click on the name.

 E Blunden

Vera Brittain

 RupertBrooke

Leslie Coulson

Gilbert Frankau

Wilfrid Gibson

Robert Graves

Julian Grenfell

Ivor Gurney

A P Herbert

Noel Hodgson

F Ledwidge

R Leighton

John McCrae

E A Mackintosh

Wilfrid Owen

I Rosenberg

S Sassoon

Alan Seeger

Charles Sorley

John Streets

G S Kennedy

E Tennant

E Thomas

R Vernede

THE MOST DETAILED AND UP TO DATE BATTLEFIELD GUIDE BOOKS AND MAPS AVAILABLE

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Cover picture of the D Day guide book used by the tour guides. All tbe beaches, all the landing zones, the memorials, cemeteries and bunkers with detailed commnetaries many coloured pictures and a free pull-out map included. Cover picture of the complete guide book to Arnhem, the Bridge too Far and all the US and British air and land operations Memorials museums cemeteries Oosterbeek. Pictures, routes, history and tourist information.

D-Day Beaches

battlefield guide book

UTAH,OMAHA,GOLD, JUNO, SWORD

and drop zones

Arnhem

Market-Garden , incl US Airborne

battlefield guide book

& the whole Corridor
Cover picture of the ultimate guide book to the Somme battlefield. Everything is covered - the battles, the memorials, the museums, the cemeteries and the people. Many coloured pictures Cover picture of the definitive guide book to Ypres and Passchendaele - the memorials, the people, the cemeteries and the bunkers. They are all here with lots of coloured pictures. Do not go without it.

Somme including US, Canadians & Australians

battlefield guide book

Ypres & Passchendaele

all battles

battlefield guide book
Cover picture of the guide book to the Gallipoli landing beaches Suvla Bay Helles Cannakale memorials museums cemeteries Istanbul Sari Bair. Pictures, routes, history and tourist information.

Cover picture of the guide book to the battlefields of the top half of the Western Front - from Nieuport via Dixmuide, Mons, Ypres, Fromelles, Vimy etc 12 battlefield tours and coloured pictures

Gallipoli

plus colour map not found anywhere else

battlefield guide book

Western Front: North

13 battlefields

The complete guide

battlefield guide book
Cover picture of the guide book to the battlefields of the Western Front south. 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. Cover picture of the pocket guide book to the Somme battlefield designed for those making a brief visit.

Western Front: South

12 battlefields

The complete guide

battlefield guide book

Pocket Guides to D Day Beaches, Ypres and

to the Somme

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Cover picture of the biography of John Kipling. Cover picture. 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

The Search for the body of John Kipling.

Has John really been found?

World War 1 Poets

Short biographies of each of 25 Poets of WW1

all with watercolour pics
Cover picture of the only 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 Cover picture of the battlefield map to theD Day Landing Beaches.

Bairnsfather Biography

His cartoons and his life

Fully illustrated

Collectables listing

Normandy Battlefield Map - D Day forces, battlelines, museums,

400 memorials

Cover picture of 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 Cover picture of the battlefield map to the Somme

Market-Garden Modern Battlefield Map

Drop zones, the Corridor, museums, cemeteries and 250 memorials

Modern Somme Battlefield Map

Trench lines, formations, museums, cemeteries

and 100 memorials
Cover picture of the battlefield map to the Ypres Salient Cover picture of the Battle Map of Gallipoli which 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

Modern Ypres & Passchendaele, Battlefield Map, trench lines, battle lines, bunkers

and 100 memorials

Unique Gallipoli Battlefield Map

Landing Beaches, cemeteries, fighting lines

and 70 memorials

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

WW1 Collectables

 

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Old Bill (Bruce Bairnsfather's WW1 Soldier)Mascot, &

WW1 Demarcation Stones  (that marked the German advance)

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Exclusive -
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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HAVE YOUR COPY SIGNED
If you would like your copy signed by the authors, for yourself or as a present, just complete the section on the order form.

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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BATTLEFIELD MAPS

These battlefield maps are designed & produced by us.

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

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Cover picture of the D Day guide book used by the tour guides. All tbe beaches, all the landing zones, the memorials, cemeteries and bunkers with detailed commnetaries many coloured pictures and a free pull-out map included. Cover picture of the guide book to the Arnhem battlefield and all the US and British air and land operations Memorials museums cemeteries Oosterbeek. Pictures, routes, history and tourist information.
Cover picture of the ultimate guide book to the Somme battlefield. Everything is covered - the battles, the memorials, the museums, the cemeteries and the people. Many coloured pictures Cover picture of the definitive guide book to Ypres and Passchendaele - the memorials, the people, the cemeteries and the bunkers. They are all here with lots of coloured pictures. Do not go without it.
Cover of the guide book to the Gallipoli battlefield and landing beaches, Suvla Bay Helles Cannakale memorials museums cemeteries Istanbul Sari Bair. Pictures, routes, history and tourist information. Cover picture of the guide book to the battlefields of the top half of the Western Front - from Nieuport via Dixmuide, Mons, Ypres, Fromelles, Vimy etc 12 battlefield tours and coloured pictures

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 Cover picture of the guide book to the battlefields of the Western Front south. 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.
This is the only battlefield map of the Gallipoli Peninsula that shows the details of the landing beaches, the memorials and cemeteries with the modern roads and battle lines. If you are going to Gallipoli you need this map. Double sided and in colour Battlefield map of all the D Day beaches, the landing forces, the airborne, the memorials, museums, cemeteries, gun positions shown accurately with modern roads. Used by tour guides and US Presidents. Double sided and in colour Arnhem battlefield map that covers the full Market Garden area with operational details, memorials, museums and cemeteries. Airborne and Ground Force movements shown in detail. Double sided and in colour THE battlefield map of the Ypres Salient. Used by anyone who wants to know what is where! Memorials, cemteries, museums - grid reference indexes and colour coded symbols. Double sided A double sided battlefield map showing in colour the whole area of the Somme on one side and a detailed area covering the 1916 offensive on the other. A smaller map on the second side covers 1918.
Gallipoli Map
  D Day Map Arnhem Map Ypres Map Somme Map
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