Pen and Sword have developed an unrivalled reputation for the quality and scope of its battlefield guides.
We are proud to publish the Holt's Series of Guide Books. Tonie and Valmai Holt are the pioneers of battlefield touring, having developed the concept nearly 40 years ago. Now millions visit the battlefields every year and their bestselling titles have been assisting with this for many years.
For those looking to understand battles in a bit more detail, then the battleground series, now with over 100 titles in print, is perfect for the armchair historian or battlefield traveller alike.
Visiting the Normandy Invasion Beaches and Battlefields: A Helpful Guide Book for Groups and Individuals delivers. The itineraries are thorough, but not overwhelming. The guide is beautifully illustrated with black and white photographs on almost every page, detailed endnotes after each itinerary, and eight military maps that highlight particular actions. The maps are located with the appropriate text rather than grouped together in a separate section of the book. This cuts down on unnecessary page turning. I highly recommend it to knowledgeable battlefield explorers and general tourists. It has something for everyone.
Read the full review [link=https://www.argunners.com/visiting-normandy-invasion-beaches-battlefields-helpful-guide-book-groups-individuals-gareth-hughes/]here[/link]
Argunners
Visiting the Normandy Invasion Beaches and Battlefields: A Helpful Guide Book for Groups and Individuals delivers. The itineraries are thorough, but not overwhelming. The guide is beautifully illustrated with black and white photographs on almost every page, detailed endnotes after each itinerary, and eight military maps that highlight particular actions. The maps are located with the appropriate text rather than grouped together in a separate section of the book. This cuts down on unnecessary page turning. I highly recommend it to knowledgeable battlefield explorers and general tourists. It has something for everyone.
Read the full review [link=https://www.argunners.com/visiting-normandy-invasion-beaches-battlefields-helpful-guide-book-groups-individuals-gareth-hughes/]here[/link]
Argunners
Overall, another excellent book in this series which is an essential point of reference to take to the battlefields, enabling any visitor to get to grips further with the landscape and events.
Jon Sandison, Freelance
Overall, another excellent book in this series which is an essential point of reference to take to the battlefields, enabling any visitor to get to grips further with the landscape and events.
Jon Sandison, Freelance
The combination of maps and firsthand testimony, as well as regimental histories, etc, is superb. This is the battle during which Tiger ace Michael Wittman was put out of action by radio-op turned gunner Joe Ekins. It's very vividly portrayed, making for an exciting and compelling read.
Read the full review [link=https://aquestionofscale.blogspot.com/2019/06/book-review-operation-totalize-tim.html]here[/link]
A Question Of Scale, Seb Palmer
The combination of maps and firsthand testimony, as well as regimental histories, etc, is superb. This is the battle during which Tiger ace Michael Wittman was put out of action by radio-op turned gunner Joe Ekins. It's very vividly portrayed, making for an exciting and compelling read.
Read the full review [link=https://aquestionofscale.blogspot.com/2019/06/book-review-operation-totalize-tim.html]here[/link]
A Question Of Scale, Seb Palmer
This comprehensive edition of Battleground series details that events that book place in August, 1914, during this early battle of the First World War. Following the isolation of II Corps General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien decided to halt and fight a rear guard action at Le Cateau thirty miles to the south-west of Mons on 26th August, 1914. By this stage, the 4th Division had joined them from England. This battle was more costly for the British than Mons. Although British musketry was to punish the Germans, artillery was to play a more decisive part. The British managed to hold them off and withdraw... ts content is broken down decisively, between the right of the line, the centre of the line and the left of the line. Following this are 4 tours, 3 of which follow this break down, with an additional chapter focussing usefully on behind the German Lines. With this is included the familiar, extremely helpful content of this series, such as the list of maps and diagrams, and wider guidance.. Read more
Jon Sandison, Freelance
This comprehensive edition of Battleground series details that events that book place in August, 1914, during this early battle of the First World War. Following the isolation of II Corps General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien decided to halt and fight a rear guard action at Le Cateau thirty miles to the south-west of Mons on 26th August, 1914. By this stage, the 4th Division had joined them from England. This battle was more costly for the British than Mons. Although British musketry was to punish the Germans, artillery was to play a more decisive part. The British managed to hold them off and withdraw... ts content is broken down decisively, between the right of the line, the centre of the line and the left of the line. Following this are 4 tours, 3 of which follow this break down, with an additional chapter focussing usefully on behind the German Lines. With this is included the familiar, extremely helpful content of this series, such as the list of maps and diagrams, and wider guidance.. Read more
Jon Sandison, Freelance
The popular image of the tragic events at Dunkirk in 1940, is of long queues of soldiers chest deep in water, waiting for small craft to ferry them to larger vessels waiting off-shore. The evacuation marked the end of what was a military disaster. In the confusion of the moment, the last minute plan to rescue survivors of the British Expidionary Force, succeeded and over 300,000 men were evacuated. Books and films have all attempted to portray the story. In his book 'The Dunkirk Perimeter and evacuation 1940' Jerry Murland describes the ad hoc organisation on the mole and beaches,and personal stories of some of the men who were amongst last to leave the stricken city. The story is the well supported by photographs and maps, with appendices listing large ships, those sunk, beached or abandoned together with dates. It also has a daily list the number of men rescued from both the beaches and the harbour between 26th May 4th June. A total 98,000 of the beaches and 239,446 from Dunkerque Harbour... Read more
Richard Gough, Military Author and Historian
The popular image of the tragic events at Dunkirk in 1940, is of long queues of soldiers chest deep in water, waiting for small craft to ferry them to larger vessels waiting off-shore. The evacuation marked the end of what was a military disaster. In the confusion of the moment, the last minute plan to rescue survivors of the British Expidionary Force, succeeded and over 300,000 men were evacuated. Books and films have all attempted to portray the story. In his book 'The Dunkirk Perimeter and evacuation 1940' Jerry Murland describes the ad hoc organisation on the mole and beaches,and personal stories of some of the men who were amongst last to leave the stricken city. The story is the well supported by photographs and maps, with appendices listing large ships, those sunk, beached or abandoned together with dates. It also has a daily list the number of men rescued from both the beaches and the harbour between 26th May 4th June. A total 98,000 of the beaches and 239,446 from Dunkerque Harbour... Read more
Richard Gough, Military Author and Historian
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Fort Vaux
The bitter fight for Fort Vaux is one of the most famous episodes in the Battle of Verdun - it has achieved almost legendary status in French military history. The heroic resistance put up by the fort's commander, Major Raynal, and his small, isolated garrison in the face of repeated German assaults was remarkable at the time, and it is still seen… Read more...
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Aisne 1914
The 1914 Battle of the Aisne, officially from 12 – 15 September, came about as a result of the German retirement from the Battle of the Marne, which took place further south as the huge conscript armies of France and Germany jostled for position almost within sight of Paris. By the time the British arrived on the Aisne the battle line stretched some… Read more...
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Operation Bluecoat-Over the Battlefield
After seven weeks of bitter fighting there was a desperate need to break out of the Normandy bridgehead. In late July 1944 Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey's Second Army moved two entire corps from the Caen sector to the relatively quiet countryside around Caumont. Here, the British XXX Corps prepared to give battle, with VII Corps advancing in… Read more...
The invasion was launched to round off Hitler's Balkan Campaign against Crete in May 1941. The Island was important to Britain's control of the Eastern Mediterranean and Churchill was determined that the Island would be held. The British garrison was largely made up of New Zealand and Australian troops who had been evacuated from Greece, with little… Read more...
