SOMMECOURT BATTLEFIELD TOURS
TOURS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR BATTLEFIELDS
BY MILITARY HISTORIAN
PAUL REED
SOMME - YPRES - LOOS - ARRAS - CAMBRAI - VERDUN
Sommecourt Battlefield Tours is a small company. It is owned and run by PAUL REED, a military historian with a highly respected knowledge of the Battlefields of the Great War. Paul is also the author of numerous books in the 'Battleground Europe' series, among them the best-selling WALKING THE SOMME. Paul has more than twenty years experience of visiting the Battlefields of Europe.
Our main services are:-
In all cases contact us for further details.
Paul Reed is also available to act as an HISTORICAL ADVISOR for film, television and any project relating to the First World War. Paul recently featured in the BBC 'Meet The Ancestors' documentary about battlefield archaeology at Ypres.
Paul works as the Senior Battlefield Guide for Leger Holidays, now the leading battlefield tour company with more than 10,000 people travelling in 2001 alone. Paul has been there since the first tour in 1997, and has been organising Leger's tours ever since. You will often find Paul on one of the tours. Currently the tours on offer include:
For full details and bookings see the Leger website:
WALKING THE SOMME
A Walker's Guide to the 1916 Somme Battlefields
By Paul Reed
Pen & Sword 1997
ISBN 0 85052 567 5 - £10.95
Fifteen walks on the 1916 Somme battlefield from Gommecourt, through Serre, Beaumont-Hamel, to Mametz and Montauban. The walker is also taken to other important sites such as High Wood, Delville Wood and Flers. Details of more than 50 Somme cemeteries are contained in the book. Profusely illustrated with many photographs never before seen in print. An ideal introduction to the haunting Somme battlefields.
WALKING THE SALIENT
A Walker's Guide to the Ypres Salient 1914-18
By Paul Reed
Pen & Sword Books 1999
ISBN: 0850526175 Price: £10.95 Extent: 208pp Paperback
A companion volume to Walking The Somme for the imposing battlefields of Flanders around the town of Ypres. Twelve walks takes the pilgrim to every corner of the grim Salient: from Passchendaele to Messines, Poperinghe, Plugstreet Wood and Kemmel Hill. Includes details of over 50 military cemeteries, and well illustrated with photographs and trench maps. A useful companion on any visit to Flanders.
Extract from the Pen & Sword Web Site:
Following the great success of ‘Walking the Somme’, Paul Reed has turned his hand to Ypres, with a series of walks designed to take the visitor across this most heavily fought-over part of the Western Front. The ‘Immortal Salient’ has had its fair share of guide books, but this one takes the reader across the landscape in the way that ‘Tommy’ would have seen it on foot. It sets the scene for all aspects of man's ingenuity and inhumanity, courage and stupidity.
SOMME: COURCELETTE
A History & Guide to the Courcelette Battlefield
By Paul Reed
Pen & Sword Books 1998
£9.95
Part of the ever-popular ‘Battleground Europe’ series, this in-depth guide to the Courcelette battlefield covers all the major actions from the capture of the village to the attacks on Regina Trench and Desire Trench. Many of the photographs included in the book have not appeared in print before and there is a harrowing eyewitness account of the attack on the Sugar Refinery by a veteran of the 21st Battalion Canadian Infantry. The guide section includes suggested routes both by car and on foot, and there is comprehensive information about the cemeteries and memorials connected with the fighting at Courcelette. The Armourer Magazine highly recommended this book.
SOMME: COMBLES
A History & Guide to the Combles Battlefield
By Paul Reed
Pen & Sword Books 2001
ISBN 0 85052 674 4 £9.95
This book will deal with the grim fighting for the Somme village of Combles - from the actions around Falfemont Farm, to the battle for Bouleaux ('Bully') and Leuze ('Lousy') woods by the 56th (London) Division in September 1916. Well illustrated, with details of the battlefield as it is today and a guide to the cemeteries and memorials connected with the fighting at Combles.
YOU CAN ORDER ALL THESE BOOKS FROM THE PEN & SWORD WEB SITE:
http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/
LINKS
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Iron Harvest - Good place to buy WW1 battlefield books and maps
Books by author Michael Stedman
CEF Books - Books about Canada in WW1
Camalou B&B - Ypres Salient (nr Dickebusche)
Varlet Farm B&B - Ypres Salient (nr Passchendaele)
Bernafay Wood B&B - Somme (nr Montauban)
FOR ALL ENQUIRIES EMAIL PAUL REED BY CLICKING ON THE EMAIL LINK BELOW:
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http://battlefields1418.50megs.com/index.htm