The Battle of Neuve Chapelle
Posted on Monday 9th March 2015
Major and Mrs Holt founded the first organisation to offer battlefield tours to the general public in the late 1970s. Since the 1990s they have been writing their series of guide books, incorporating all that they have learned from their experiences conducting thousands of people around battlefields. This series, designed to serve as companions for travellers, whether sitting at home or physically visiting the battlefields, includes detailed travel directions, military history, fascinating anecdotes and tourist information. The Holts share the writing of their books equally and conduct all their own research, spending many weeks on the ground as they prepare each new book or update previously published titles.






Further Reading
Major & Mrs. Holt's Concise Illustrated Battlefield Guide - The Western Front - North
(Paperback - 367 pages)
ISBN: 9781781593974
by Major and Mrs Holt
Only £16.99
Following in their best-selling series of Battlefield Guides this is a companion volume to the Holts' Western Front – South Guide. Between the two they cover the main WW1 Western Front battlefields. This book covers 15 of the most significant battles of the northern area from Nieuwport to just north of The Somme.
Whether travelling on the ground or in the mind, the reader is carefully guided through the battlefields with a mixture of succinct military history, cameo memories and stories of VCs and other personalities, interspersed with references…
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