Major & Mrs. Holt's Battlefield Guide to Ypres Salient is more than just a guidebook. It Is the book of the Salient. It charts in fascinating detail what happened at each recommended stop and brings alive, with cameos and anecdotes, the people who fought there: leaders, heroes, poets, historic regiments, politicians, Tommy and Fritz...

...here lie: Noel Chavasse, the double VC/ 14-year old Private Condon/ three Albert Medal winners/ the poets ‘Hedd Wyn’ and Francis Ledwidge/ the great-great grandson of Paul Revere/ Prince Maurice of Battenberg...
...here John McCrae wrote In Flanders Fields
...here the Worcesters saved the day 31 Oct ’14
...here Julian Grenfell was mortally wounded
...here the flame thrower/chlorine gas was used
...here Winston Churchill fought in the trenches
...here ‘Old Bill’ was born...

St includes:
• Two different approach routes and three recommended, timed, itineraries.
• Sketch maps to ail the approaches and itineraries.
• Memorials, large and smalt: museums; preserved trenches; bunkers.
• American, Belgian, Commonwealth and French war graves.
• Information about the allied and German war graves associations.
• Historical background to the Four Battles of Ypres.
• The history of Ypres before and after the Great War.
• Descriptions of commemorative organisations like the Ypres League.
• Useful tourist information.
• Full colour illustrations throughout.

Packaged with

MAJOR & MRS HOLTS BATTLE MAP OF THE YPRES SAUEHT

Map references throughout to this detailed and useful map which shows the battle lines of First, Second and Third Ypres, the Gas Attack and Messines, 50m contours and all features of WW1 interest in the area.