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Title: Still the Best
Review: Written before the recent renewed interest in the Great War, this guide is still the best there is. It covers pretty much the entire Western Front and has hundreds of photos of monuments, markers, important buildings and of course, cemetaries. Although it focuses on the British battlefields (particulary Ypres and the Somme) there is great info about the French battlefields and an excellent section on the Americans. I've used this book to find amazing places (like Apremont-la-foret and the Butte de Vaquois just to name two) and put a name to places I've visited but didn't, at the time, know what they were. If you're a Great War buff, or even just interested, this book is essential. You'll get more detail in the Holt's guides, Middlebrook's stunningly clear guide to the Somme, or the terrific Leo Cooper Battleground Europe series. But to get nearly every important site on the Western Front in one 150 page package, Mrs. Coombs' book is it. Highly recommended.
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