Major and Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Guide to the D-Day Normandy Landing Beaches

This is the sixth, completely revised, up-to-date, much expanded edition of the Definitive Guide to The D-Day Normandy Beaches. Written to the same highly acclaimed formula as all of the other books in this important series of Battlefield Guides (Somme, Ypres, Gallipoli, Market-Garden, Western Front - North, Western Front - South). Once again the cold facts are interlaced with anecdotes of bravery, humour, sadness and humanity.

This new edition now contains:

• All the landing Beaches: JUNO, SWORD, GOLD, OMAHA, UTAH
• All the Airborne Operations:
• British and American Two Approach Routes;
• Six timed and measured Itineraries
• 21 in-text Itinerary maps, Battle maps & Diagrams
• Approx 400 recommended sites within the D-Day planned area of advance,all with photos, each with Latitude & Longitude references (New for this Edition)
• Over 400 coloured pictures,
• 352 pages Memorials / Museums / Batteries / Bunkers / Landing fields Allied and German War Cemeteries
• Historical background to the landings
• The Plans and what actually happened
• Information about Allied and German War Graves Associations Veterans' and other commemorative associations
• Normandy tourist information: Where to stay / where to eat
• Cameos about personalities - VCs / MOHs / Poets / Photographers etc...