Warfare in News

Posted on Monday 28th May
Recently selling on Amazon for up to £450 per copy due to high demand, 'The Bible' of battlefield guides to the Normandy area – Major & Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Guide to the D-Day Normandy Landing Beaches – will be released on the anniversary of D-Day, 6 June 2012.
The sixth, completely revised, up-to-date, much expanded edition of the guidebook is the third in the Holts' highly acclaimed series of battlefield guides. It has been published to coincide with the anniversary of D-Day and the unveiling of a statue to 'Dick' Winters of 'Easy' Coy, Band of Brothers near UTAH Beach – an exclusive photograph of which is featured in the book.
This sixth edition marks 30 years of development for the Holts' guidebook to Normandy, and its expanded and remodelled itineraries reflect changes in technology, visitors' requirements and methods of navigation, as well as including some 400 sites of interest, complete with GPS latitude and longitude locations and over 400 coloured photographs throughout the book.
Readers have described this book as 'an absolute must', advising: 'If you only buy one book, make it this one'.
The sixth, completely revised, up-to-date, much expanded edition of the guidebook is the third in the Holts' highly acclaimed series of battlefield guides. It has been published to coincide with the anniversary of D-Day and the unveiling of a statue to 'Dick' Winters of 'Easy' Coy, Band of Brothers near UTAH Beach – an exclusive photograph of which is featured in the book.
This sixth edition marks 30 years of development for the Holts' guidebook to Normandy, and its expanded and remodelled itineraries reflect changes in technology, visitors' requirements and methods of navigation, as well as including some 400 sites of interest, complete with GPS latitude and longitude locations and over 400 coloured photographs throughout the book.
Readers have described this book as 'an absolute must', advising: 'If you only buy one book, make it this one'.
Further Reading
Major and Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Guide to the D-Day Normandy Landing Beaches
(Paperback - 352 pages)by Major and Mrs Holt
Already the best-selling English-language guide to the area, universally known as 'THE BIBLE', this is the seventh, completely revised, up-to-date, much expanded edition of the DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE D-DAY NORMANDY LANDING BEACHES.
Written to the same highly acclaimed formula as all of the other books in this important series of Battlefield Guides (Somme, Ypres, Gallipoli, Market-Garden, Western Front - North, Western Front - South). Once again the cold facts are interlaced… Read more...
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