Northern France

Baedeker town plans and First World War campaign maps often trace the same roads, rivers and towns of Northern France for ve...

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Baedeker town plans and First World War campaign maps often trace the same roads, rivers and towns of Northern France for very different readers. The travel material covers Chartres, Caen, Beauvais, Nancy and the Normandy resorts, with plans of Paris and Mont-Saint-Michel and wider sheets following the valleys of the Seine and Loire, while river and coastal maps show the approaches to ports and inland towns. The military histories map the Marne, the Aisne and the opening movements on the Western Front in retrospective diagrams, drawn to explain the fighting rather than to guide a traveller.

Baedeker town plans and First World War campaign maps often trace the same roads, rivers and towns of Northern France for very different readers. The travel material covers Chartres, Caen, Beauvais, Nancy and the Normandy resorts, with plans of Paris and Mont-Saint-Michel and wider sheets following the valleys of the Seine and Loire, while river and coastal maps show the approaches to ports and inland towns. The military histories map the Marne, the Aisne and the opening movements on the Western Front in retrospective diagrams, drawn to explain the fighting rather than to guide a traveller.

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