Major and Mrs Holt’s definitive battlefield guide to the D-Day Normandy landing beaches is highly recommended.

The Royal Hampshire Comrades Association

The Bible of Guides on the Normandy Landing.

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Miniaturas JM

Universally known as THE BIBLE of Battlefield Guides to the area. This is the 75th Anniversary Edition with GPS References and is completely revised, up-to-date, with much expanded edition.

Forces Pension Society

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The battlefield guides of Major & Mrs Holt have long set the benchmark and this new book is what it claims, the definitive battlefield guide to the Normandy Landing Beaches. The text is crisp and comprehensive with excellent full colour images in illustration, together with a folded map of the beaches – Most Highly Recommended.

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Firetrench

Illustrations are relevant and of very good quality. There is also a large water resistant folding map covering the area. The GPS world is not forgotten. For those wanting food or accommodation this is also covered, Museums show the relevant opening times. In short this contains all the information for a well organised, informative tour. Anyone taking an elderly veteran to Normandy should regard the book as an essential planning tool.

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Army Rumour Service (ARRSE)

It is an outstanding guide and therefore an appropriate swansong that is suitable for novice and veteran tourists alike.

Soldier, September 2019 – reviewed by Mike Peters, ex-AAC

A guide that cannot be missed if you want to visit Normandy.

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Old Barbed Wire Blog

Major & Mrs Holt´s new guide can be used not only to plan a trip to battlegrounds or museums of special interest, it is a tool for historians, serving officers, history buffs and wargamers. Even if you have been to Normandy a couple of times I bet you will find several new and highly interesting places thanks to this guide. I did. Also, you will probably find the purely historical information in the book very readable, motivating, and sometimes also very moving.

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Lars Gyllenhall, Blogger

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Argunners

Having covered the Somme and Ypres battlefields, Major and Mrs Holt now turn their attention to the D-Day Normandy Landing Beaches in this definitive guide. Simply superb in every way.

Books Monthly

This publication contains so much information it is difficult to decide where to start. I visited Normandy a couple of years ago and used an earlier version of this guide to plan the route we took. This particular book has so many photographs and information the user may feel overwhelmed by the scale of what is covered, with this said this is after all a guide to what to visit. Each visitor will have their own feelings about the area, but the magnitude of what was attempted, achieved and lost should never be forgotten.

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Armorama

So what is covered in the guidebook? Well everything you would expect. The six timed and measured itineraries include the US Airborne, US Rangers and British Airborne operations, as well as all the landing Beaches: UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO, SWORD. Supporting these itineraries are ten battle maps, supplemented by five informative diagrams. Over 500 coloured photographs illustrate 350 pages of Memorials, Museums, Beaches, Batteries, Bunkers and Landing Fields that makes this a must-have guidebook for anyone contemplating a visit to Normandy. It is always in my pack when visiting; I wouldn’t leave home without it. Highly Recommended.

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Redcoat and Khaki

Packed with useful information, easy to use & carry with you, great photos & a fold-out map. Classic Normandy battlefield guide!

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Paul Reed via Twitter

In time for the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, a completely revised and much expanded edition of the book universally known as the Bible of battlefield guides.

The Bookseller 8/3/19