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D-Day Normandy Landing Beaches (Major & Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Guide) Kindle Edition
Already the best-selling English-language guide to the area, universally known as “the Bible,” this is the sixth, 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, humor, 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; and approximately 400 recommended sites within the D-Day planned area of advance, all with photos, each with latitude & longitude references (New for this Edition). It features over 400 colored pictures and 352 pages of memorials, museums, batteries, bunkers, landing fields, historical background to the landings, the plans and what actually happened, information about Allied and German war graves, veterans’ associations, and other commemorative associations. It also has Normandy tourist information about where to stay and to eat, and information about historical figures such as recipients of the Victoria Cross and the Medal of Honor, poets, photographers, and more.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPen & Sword Military
- Publication dateSeptember 19, 2013
- File size17083 KB
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- ASIN : B00DN5V9AY
- Publisher : Pen & Sword Military; 6th Edition with Latitude and Longitude Referrences (September 19, 2013)
- Publication date : September 19, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 17083 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 849 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,071,506 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #133 in Atlases (Kindle Store)
- #420 in Beach Travel
- #505 in French Travel
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About the authors
Valmai Holt is the 'Mrs' of Major and Mrs Holt who are well known as the authors of the leading guide books to the battlefields of the First and Second World Wars.
Both she and Tonie (the 'Major') began writing at their schools. Their first published works were for local newspapers and then for commercial radio.
They founded the company Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Tours in the early 1970s at which time it was the first and only company running such tours for the general public eventually covering wars as far afield as Viet Nam, the Crimea, South Africa, El Alamein, the American Civil War and of course the battles of both the First and Second World Wars.
In the 1980s they were asked to take over running the Pilgrimage programme for the Royal British Legion which they completely upgraded and then handed back to the Legion when the British Government re-instated the financial support for relatives to visit the graves of loved ones. Realising that no firm central record of overseas war memorials for our forces and allies existed they decided to make one themselves thus establishing the base for future books.
Having sold the company in the 1990s Valmai and Tonie began writing the series of guide books which is now accepted as the leader amongst such publications. Unlike many authors they do not have a team of researchers but do all their own research by travelling all the routes they recommend, visiting all the memorials and cemeteries and taking all the photographs.
Both are keen on sport - both played hockey, Valmai at University level and Tonie for the Army and County, but despite all efforts were unable to persuade their grand-daughters to follow suit. However both girls have followed in their grand- parents footsteps by being committed to remembering those who fought for our freedom.
Valmai spent some time on the board of the local hospital Trust and Tonie with the Prince's Trust organising the first exhibition of Work at the House of Lords.
Currently they are working to update their First World War books in anticipation of the 100th Anniversaries from 1914
Tonie Holt is the 'Major' of Major and Mrs Holt who are well known as the authors of the leading guide books to the battlefields of the First and Second World Wars.
Both he and Valmai(the 'Mrs') began writing at their schools. Their first published works were for local newspapers and then for commercial radio.
They founded the company Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Tours in the early 1970s at which time it was the first and only company running such tours for the general public eventually covering wars as far afield as Viet Nam, the Crimea, South Africa, El Alamein, the American Civil War and of course the battles of both the First and Second World Wars.
In the 1980s they were asked to take over running the Pilgrimage programme for the Royal British Legion which they completely upgraded and then handed back to the Legion when the British Government re-instated the financial support for relatives to visit the graves of loved ones.
Having sold the company in the 1990s Tonie and Valmai began writing the series of guide books which is now accepted as the leader amongst such publications. Unlike many authors they do not have a team of researchers but do all their own research by travelling all the routes they recommend, visiting all the memorials and cemeteries and taking all the photographs.
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As to substance, the guide has the historic and personal details rarely found in the narratives of this most important military event. Personal stories, recounting the smaller but crucial combat events, fill in the massive events of June 6, 1944. To be candid, reviewing the Holt's guide AFTER having seen the ground, and now having an appreciation of the physical extent of the front (being much larger than I had anticipated), I find significant value in the information that fills in or completes the picture of the combat plans and the events that actually evolved in the places visited.
If you are going to the D-Day invasion area, and have a serious interest in the breadth of history you are taking in, get Major and Mrs. Holt's guide. One further suggestion. Buy the paper version. You will want to go back and forth in the text and map pages to tie people, places and events together. I have just ordered the paper version to re-read and in anticipation of a return visit in the near future.
One of them museums is now permanently closed, so it would be helpful, in this day & age, if the authors had an online place where users could provide feedback on closures.