Major & Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Guide Somme: 100th Anniversary
Major & Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Guide Somme: 100th Anniversary The 100th Anniversary of the most publicly aware battle of WW1 - the battle of the Somme, will be on 1 July 2016 and every…
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Major & Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Guide Somme: 100th Anniversary
The 100th Anniversary of the most publicly aware battle of WW1 - the battle of the Somme, will be on 1 July 2016 and every media form will be covering it from January onwards. It is a legacy that should be on every bookshelf. The book has taken 20 years to mature from its first edition to this new 'Definitive' edition, the Seventh, each time being updated and expanded.
This Guide Book is MORE than a guide book - Sir Martin Gilbert said, ' the Holts have raised the Guide Book to a new high level, ' and ' the golden thread that runs through it (the previous Somme Guide) - is the The book is based upon over 30 years of traveling and writing about battlefields by two people - Major and Mrs Holt - who are credited with having started the modern era of battlefield tours - and were awarded the Somme Centenary Medal for their work in 'opening the doors to the battlefields' with their books.