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Major & Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Guide: Somme 100th Anniversary

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Major and Mrs Holt’s Definitive Battlefield Guide Tonie and Valmai Holt Seventh GPS Edition Somme 100th Anniversary Pen and Sword £16.99 (Discounted to £13.50 on Pen & Sword website, and also available in eBook version for Kindle £8.02) First published 1996. This Revised, much-expanded Edition 2016 274pp +Pull out map Foreword by Francois B...


Walking Ypres

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Walking Ypres Pen & Sword Barnsley 2017 £15.99, 296 pp, pb ills & maps throughout. ISBN: 0-17815-900-3 Paul Reed As the title suggests ‘Walking Ypre’ is standard ‘Battleground Europe’ fare intended for the footslogger rather than the exponent of mobile battlefield visiting. The book offers 14 chapters, each a walk from a designated sta...


Are you a Battlefield Guide to the Western Front ?

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MA Student Jack Evason who writes: Hi,  I am an MA student at the University of York writing a dissertation about battlefield guides to the Western Front. Part of this research will include interviews with battlefield guides themselves, due to take place the week beginning 12th July.  On request you will be given access to the information sheet....


Ep.257 – Visiting the WW1 Battlefields in France and Belgium – Tom Strickland

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Tom Strickland, author, teacher and historian, talks about his recent book Following in the Footsteps of Heroes which is a new guide to the battlefield sites of France and Belgium. Your browser does not support the audio element. Tom talks...


Obituary: Major Tonie Holt, 1930 – 2024

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Major Tonie Holt, 1930 – 2024 as featured on his LinkedIn pages It is with deep sadness that we announce that Major Tonie Holt died peacefully last week at the age of 94. A man of many talents, Major Holt was a decorated soldier, a respected historian, a prolific author, and a pioneer in battlefield tourism. Born in 1930, Tonie Holt served his...