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Major & Mrs Holt's concise illustrated battlefield guide to the Western Front, North / Major and Mrs Holt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holt, Tonie, author.
- Holt, Valmai, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front--Guidebooks.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Battlefields--Europe, Western--Guidebooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (654 p.)
- Edition:
- Second revised,100th anniversary edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 to the literature and poetry of the war.This gu
- Contents:
- Mons
- Le Cateau-Ors
- Notre-Dame de Lorette, Artois
- The Yser
- First Ypres
- Neuve Chapelle
- Second Ypres
- Aubers Ridge
- Festubert-Givenchy
- Loos
- Fromelles
- Vimy Ridge, Arras
- Thirrd Ypres (Passchendaele)
- Fourth Ypres (Battle of the Lys).
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781783401826
- 1783401826
- 9781783409105
- 178340910X
- OCLC:
- 854974609
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