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Major and Mrs Holt
Tonie and Valmai Holt founded the UK's first commercial battlefield tour company and later became English non-fiction authors of battlefield guidebooks.

Tonie and Valmai began creating battlefield tours in the 1970s which led to a whole new sector in the travel industry. After they sold their Company, Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Tours, they began writing their battlefield guide books which became acknowledged standard works.

In the 1970s, Major and Mrs Holt founded the first organisation to offer battlefield tours to the general public. They have been writing their series of guidebooks since the 1990s, written from their unique perspective of conducting thousands of people around the battlefields of France and Belgium.

The pair are Honorary Members of the Guild of Battlefield Guides, whose website describes them as "pioneers of battlefield guiding."

The couple’s contribution to ensuring that what happened on the battlefields is remembered appropriately was recognised by the Departement of the Somme in 2014, when they were each presented with the Somme Centenary Medal – they were the only British awards, the others went to two French, one German and one American recipients.

The city of Ypres also held a special ceremony at the Menin Gate to acknowledge their work in making the Ypres Salient and its memorials 'available' to British visitors and pilgrims.

Pocket Battlefield Guides
Major & Mrs Holt's Pocket Battlefield Guide to the Somme 1916/1918 – Centenary edition

Major & Mrs Holt's Pocket Battlefield Guide to Ypres and Passchendaele

Major & Mrs Holt's Pocket Battlefield Guide to Normandy Landing Beaches

Illustrated Battlefield Guides
Major & Mrs. Holt's Concise Illustrated Battlefield Guide - The Western Front - North

Major and Mrs Holt's Concise Illustrated Battlefield Guide - The Western Front - South

Major And Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide To Gallipoli

Major & Mrs Holt’s Definitive Battlefield Guide Somme: 100th Anniversary

Major & Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Guide to Ypres Salient & Passchendaele – Fully Updated for 2017

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

Major And Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide To Operation Market Garden

Other Works
My Boy Jack?

Poets Of The Great War

The Best of Fragments from France

Till the Boys Come Home

The Biography of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather