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WORLD WAR 1
WORLD WAR 2
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This eagerly-awaited companion to the
Western Front -
NORTH
is now available.
Together the two volumes comprehensively
chart the most significant battles of the
WW1 Western Front - from the Channel to below
Verdun - in the Holts' inimitable well-researched
and entertaining manner. Each book stands
alone but together they
form the most comprehensive and detailed English-language
guide to the WW1 Western Front ever produced.
Invaluable for tour guides and individual
travellers, whether on the ground or in armchairs,
this second edition has even
MORE PAGES and PICTURES than
the first.
Following
in the Holts' series of six best-selling Battlefield
Guides (to Western
Front - North, Ypres, The Somme, Gallipoli,
Normandy Landing Beaches and Operation MARKET-GARDEN/Arnhem)
comes this, the second of two books covering
the whole length of the WW1 Western Front.
It is a concise illustrated Guide to 12 of
the First World War's most significant battles
and completes what will become the standard
work for those interested in the battlefields
of the First World War. Whether travelling
on the ground or in the mind the reader is
carefully and concisely guided through the
battlefields with a mixture of succinct military
history, personal stories of bravery and fear,
cameo memories, poetry and informed opinion
- as well as careful travel directions.
Each battlefield
opens with pertinent quotations from participants,
has a brief Summary of the Battle, Opening
Moves, a description of What Happened
and a Battlefield Tour of the most
salient features, accompanied by a sketch map
and colour photographs of the battlefield today.
There are sections on Tourist Information and
War Graves Organisations and the map on pages
2-3 shows where all the battlefields are across
the Western Front. On the carefully timed and
measured Itineraries are 30 Museums plus bunkers,
craters, Decauville track, forts, preserved
trenches, American, CWGC, French, German, Italian
and Polish Cemeteries and literally hundreds
of Memorials, from the small plaque to the monumental.
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The massive and dramatic French Memorial at Mondemont
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German Medical
Bunker, Les Eparges |
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Stained
glass window in the American Memorial Church, Chateau
Thierry |
The
Russian Church at Ste Hilaire |
Lost
Battalion Marker, Apremont |
YOU CAN READ
ABOUT THESE THINGS AND MUCH MORE
- how the Parisian taxi
cabs saved the day
- how the gallant heroes
of 'L' Battery hung on
- where the French Ace,
Guynemer was born
- how men fought hand
to hand underground in the dark
- where Pres Roosevelt's
youngest son was shot down
- how the US Marines
took Belleau Wood
- where the British
lost 60,000 casualties in a day
- where tank first fought
versus tank
- where the poet E.W.
Mackintosh is buried
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As
well as the famous and much-visited major battlefields
of the Somme and Verdun the book includes many lesser-known
(at least to British visitors) but equally fascinating
battlefield sites, such as the American battlefields
round Belleau Wood, the stupendous craters at Les
Eparges and the Butte de Vauquois, the sites of British
participation on the Aisne and in the Forest of Villers
Cotterêts.
Together
Major & Mrs Holt's
Battlefield Guides to the Western Front North and
South form
the most comprehensive and detailed English-language
guide to the WW1 Western Front ever produced.
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