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Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide Books And Maps
Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide Books And Maps

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All D-Day Landing Beaches and Airborne Drop Zones

MAJOR & MRS HOLT'S BATTLEFIELD GUIDE
TO THE NORMANDY D- DAY LANDING BEACHES

The only book that you will ever need
You get a FREE battlefield map with this book 

TRAVEL DIRECTIONS, MEMORIALS, CEMETERIES, TOURIST INFORMATION, BUNKERS, HISTORY OF THE LANDINGS

5th Edition published by Pen & Sword Books in limpback. 304 pages. Over 200 col illustrations.
12 sketches/diagrams. Packaged with the appropriate Battle Map.
Price £15.99
MAIN SITES VISITED ON THE ITINERARIES
Batteries, Bunkers, Preserved Sites: Azeville; Crisbecq; Longues; Merville Battery; Mulberry Harbour; Point du Hoc
Beaches:
UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO, SWORD and airborne drop/landing zones
Cemeteries:
American National, St Laurent; Bayeux CWGC; La Cambe, German; Ranville CWGC
Memorials:
Around 200 including- Gen Montgomery, Colleville-Montgomery; Gen Eisenhower, Bayeux
Museums:
Arromanches Debarquement; Bayeux Battle of Normandy; Caen Memorial; Cherbourg Fort du Roule; Douvres Radar; Grandcamp Rangers; Merville Battery; Ouistreham Atlantic Wall; Pegasus Bridge Airborne; Portsmouth D-Day; St Laurent D-Day; Ste Mere Eglise Airborne; UTAH Beach; Ver-sur-Mer GOLD
Towns, Villages:
Arromanches; Bayeux; Benouville; Beny; Caen; Carentan; Cherbourg; Courseulles; Creully; Crepon; Douvres; Hermanville; Ouistreham; Port-en-Bessin;
Ranville; Ste Mere Eglise; Ver-sur-Mer; Vierville



CONTENTS
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • How to Use this Guide    
  • Historical Summary
  • Approach One: Portsmouth-Cherbourg
  • Approach Two: Calais-Caen
  • Itinerary One: US Airborne Operations/UTAH Beach
  • Itinerary Two: US Rangers Operations / OMAHA Beach
  • Itinerary Three: Bayeux / GOLD Beach
  • Itinerary Four: JUNO & SWORD Beaches
  • Itinerary Five: British Airborne Operations
  • Wargraves, Commemorative Assocs,
  • Tourist Info,
  • Indexes: Forces, General, Memorials, Museums, Cemeteries

Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to the Normandy Beaches
is the most detailed and comprehensive guide book covering the present-day battlefield, and the actions that took place on and immediately behind the D-Day beaches, ever published.
   The third in the Holts' important series of Battlefield Guides (following the Somme and the Ypres Salient) it employs the same, highly acclaimed formula. Once again the cold facts are interlaced with anecdotes of bravery, humour, sadness and humanity …
• … here RSM Stan Hollis won the VC
• … here nine pairs of brothers are buried
• … here the poet Keith Douglas landed
• … here lie the men who inspired Saving Private
       Ryan
• … here John Steele hung on the church steeple
It includes:
• 2 different Approach Routes/5 recommended,
   timed Itineraries
• Sketch maps in all the Itineraries
• Historical background to the Landings
• The plans and what actually happened on D-Day
• Over 300 memorials, large and small
• Museums, batteries and bunkers
• American, Commonwealth. German and Polish
   Cemeteries and Veterans' Commemorative
   Associations
• Useful tourist information
• Full colour illustrations throughout
Packaged with the Battle Map of the Normandy Landing Beaches

Showing the sea Assault formations for UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO and SWORD Beaches and the air Assault Formations round Ste Mère Eglise and Pegasus Bridge; the D-Day Objectives and the Ground Gained on D-Day.
      
The Normandy American National Cemetery, St Laurent
The Normandy American National Cemetery,    St Laurent  The Memorial showing the Spirit of America statue and the Reflective Pool. On the wall behind the Memorial are listed the names of the 1,557 Missing. In the Cemetery beyond the pool are buried 9,286 American servicemen and women who died in the Normandy Battles of 1944, including Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt.
The 6 June 1944 Museum, Arromanches

The 6 June 1944
Museum, Arromanches
Containing models of the Landing Beaches, the
famous Mulberry Harbour, & a 1944 British Admiralty film of the construction of 'Port Winston'.

The Pegasus Café, Bénouville

The Pegasus Cafe, Benouville
Run by the Monsieur & Madame Gondrée, this was the first café in France to be liberated in the early hours of 6 June by Major John Howard of the Ox & Bucks in his daring coup de main glider landings. It now contains memorabilia of that historic day.

Bayeux Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery
Bayeux Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery

This beautifully maintained cemetery contains 4,648 Allied (Australian, British, Canadian, Czechoslovakian, French, Italian, New Zealand, Polish, Russian and South African) graves, including Cpl Sidney Bates, VC.

Hetzer Tank, Bayeux Museum of the Battle of Normandy
Hetzer Tank, Bayeux Museum of the Battle of Normandy
.

This spectacular SP anti-tank gun is in the grounds of this fascinating museum which contains many unique documents, photographs, dioramas of the Falaise Pocket and other battles.

Piper Bill Millin, SWORD BeachPiper Bill Millin, SWORD Beach
Bill was the personal Piper of Lord Lovat of No 4 Commando who ordered him to play "Highland Laddie" as they landed here at 0820 on 6 June.
Bunker, Pointe du HocBunker, Pointe du Hoc
This is typical of the many remnants of Hitler's 'Atlantic Wall' that still exist along the Normandy coast. The Pointe du Hoc area, where the American Rangers made their dramatic landing, has been preserved with all its original shell craters and bunkers
Information Centre, German Cemetery, la CambeInformation Centre,
German Cemetery, la Cambe

By the modern building, complete with computer access to all 1944 German and Allied burials in Normandy,
is one of the many local authority information 'totems'

There are over 200 coloured illustrations like this in the book

    All are much larger and a great deal clearer!

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Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide Books And Maps