Major & Mrs HoltÍs Battlefield Guide to Ypres Salient and Passchendaele

Author: Major Holt
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 0850525519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
This is the most complete guide to the First World War Battlefield of Ypres that has ever been published. Tonie and Valmai Holt, have condensed the knowledge gained from almost a quarter of a century of researching, writing about, visiting and conducting groups around Ypres into this remarkable book. Here are concise descriptions of the military elements of the battles woven into a kaleidoscope of human, literary and travel information. There are recommended, timed itineraries, in each itinerary representing one day's travelling. Every stop on the routes has an accompanying description and often a tale of heroic or tragic action.Memorials large and small, private and official, sites of memorable conflict, the resting places of personalities of note - they are all here and joined together by a sympathetic and understanding commentary that gives the reader a sensitivity toward the events of 1914-1918 that can only be matched by visiting the battlefield itself. This is a guide book written by people who, because they have been directly involved in taking tours themselves, know the form and type of information that best serves the visitor to the battlefield. NEW, FULLY UPDATED EDITION PACKAGED WITH A FREE, FULL COLOUR FOLD-OUT MAP WORTH '3.99

Major & Mrs. Holt's Battlefield Guide to the Ypres Salient & Passchendaele

Author: Tonie Holt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ieper (Belgium)
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description

Major and Mrs. Holt's Battlefield Guide to the Ypres Salient

Author: Tonie Holt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780951130063
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Three detailed driving itineraries, four walks and a history of the Yp res Salient are provided in this guide, where so many perished during the Great War of 1914 to 1918. It introduces readers to the places that still exist from that time, as well as including map references and a full index. This book has been designed to be used in conjunction with Major and Mrs Holt's Battle Map of the Ypres Salient.

Major & Mrs Holt's Pocket Battlefield Guide to Ypres & Passchendaele

Author: Tonie Holt
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1844153770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Covering the important WW1 Battles of Ypres, including the notorious Passchendaele, this guidebook takes readers on a historic trip through some of the well-known and most important sites of the area.This book, part of a new series of guides, is designed conveniently in a small size, for those who have only limited time to visit, or who are simply interested in as an introduction to the historic battlefields, whether on the ground or from an armchair. They contain selections from the Holts' more detailed guides of the most popular and accessible sites plus hand tourist information, capturing the essential features of the Battles.The book contains many full color maps and photographs and detailed instructions on what to see and where to visit.

The Battle Book of Ypres

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ieper (Belgium)
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description

Major & Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Guide to the D-Day Normandy Landing Beaches: 75th Anniversary Edition with GPS References

Author: Tonie Holt
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
ISBN: 9781526757906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Already the best-selling English-language guide to the area, universally known as THE BIBLE, this is the 75th anniversary, completely revised, up-to-date, much expanded edition of the DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE D-DAY NORMANDY LANDING BEACHES. 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. This new edition now contains: All the landing Beaches: JUNO, SWORD, GOLD, OMAHA, UTAH All the Airborne Operations: British and American Two Approach Routes; Six timed and measured Itineraries 21 in-text Itinerary maps, Battle maps & Diagrams Approx 400 recommended sites within the D-Day planned area of advance, all with photos, each with Latitude & Longitude references (New for this Edition) Over 400 coloured pictures, 352 pages Memorials / Museums / Batteries / Bunkers / Landing fields Allied and German War Cemeteries Historical background to the landings The Plans and what actually happened Information about Allied and German War Graves Associations Veterans and other commemorative associations Normandy tourist information: Where to stay / where to eat Cameos about personalities - VCs / MOHs / Poets / Photographers etc 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 M Eglise and Pegasus Bridge; the D-Day Objectives and the Ground Gained on D-Day.

Major & Mrs. Holt's Concise Illustrated Battlefield Guide to the Western Front, North

Author: Tonie Holt
Publisher: Leo Cooper Books
ISBN: 9780850529333
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Mons; Le Cateau; 1st Ypres, Neuve Chapelle, 2nd Ypres; Loos; Aisne/Chemin des Dames; Verdun, The Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele; Cambrai; Kaiser's Offensive; St Mihiel/Meuse-Argonne; Hindenburg Line Following in the Holts' series of five best-selling Battlefield Guides comes this Guide to 15 of the First World War's most significant battles of the Western Front. Whether travelling on the ground or in the mind the reader is carefully and concisely guided through the Western Front with a mixture of succinct military history, cameo memories, poetry and informed opinion - as well as careful travel directions. Each battlefield has a brief Summary of the Battle, the Opening Moves, a description of What Happened and a Battlefield Tour of the most salient features, accompanied by a sketch map and photographs of the battlefield today. There are sections on Tourist Information and War Graves Organisations and a sketch map on the end papers puts the battlefields in Perspective. This book continues Major & Mrs Holt's the tradition of high quality historical research and familiarity with the battlefields and the regions of France and It consists of 256 pages, with each battle having 3 pages of Historical Introduction, 8 pages of Battlefield Touring, a Sketch Map with Spot colour and 2 pages of full colour pictures the whole is preceded by an introduction and followed by a comprehensive index.

1914

Author: Matthew Richardson
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473826497
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459

Book Description
The opening battles of WWI’s Western Front and the world-changing advances in warfare are reexamined through eyewitness accounts from the trenches. The 1914 campaign of World War I, sparked by the German Army’s invasion of Luxembourg, Belgium, and France, marked a watershed in military history. Advances in weaponry forced both sides to take to the earth in what became a grueling standoff of trench warefare. In a bizarre mix of ancient and modern, some of the last cavalry charges took place in the same theatre in which armoured cars, motorcycles and aeroplanes were beginning to make their presence felt. These dramatic developments were recorded in graphic detail by soldiers who were there in the trenches themselves. Now, with the benefit of these firsthand accounts, historian Matthew Richardson offers a thoroughgoing reassessment of the 1914 campaign. His vivid narrative emphasises the perspective of the private soldiers and junior officers of the British Army and includes full colour plates containing over one hundred illustrations. 1914: Voices from the Battlefields was a Britain At War Magazine Book of the Month in February 2014.

World War I Battlefields

Author: John Ruler
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN: 9781784770891
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This guide covers both French and Belgian battlefield sites. Produced in a lightweight and portable format, the guide will cover all the main memorials and museums alongside practical information on how to book the best guided tours or find the resting place of family members lost in battle

The Missing of the Somme

Author: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307742970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—and completely, unabashedly, unlike any other book about the First World War. Through visits to battlefields and memorials, Geoff Dyer examines the way that photographs and film, poetry and prose determined—sometimes in advance of the events described—the way we would think about and remember the war. With his characteristic originality and insight, Dyer untangles and reconstructs the network of myth and memory that illuminates our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.