Bedford books and maps

Maps and guide books Bedford

Bedford books and maps

Bedford books: Maps
	AA Street by Street Bedford MIDI Local (AA Street by Street S.) This series of street maps aim to provide clear, legible mapping with easily identifiable landmarks and a large index. They incorporate current digital data from Ordnance Survey. Each atlas in the range contains: a clear road hierarchy with a clever use of colour for easy navigation; prominent landmarks and detail for motorists; clearly marked one-way streets; easily identifiable symbols; a distance measure on each page; easy-to-read street names in clear type; clear district names and area postcodes; and an index with coloured letter headers for quick reference. Price: £3.50 Publication: November 1, 2003
	Bedford and Huntingdon, St.Neots and Biggleswade (Landranger Maps) This map is part of the Landranger (Pink) series and is designed for people who really want to get to know an area. It includes the following information: tourist information, camping and caravan sites, picnic areas and viewpoints, selected places of interest and rights of way information for England and Wales. Each map in the series covers an area of 40 km by 40 km (25 miles by 25 miles) and like other Ordnance Survey maps, National Grid squares are provided so that any feature can be given a unique reference number. Perfect for planning ahead and local excursions, these maps are full of useful information that will help you really get to know an area. Price: £5.19 Publication: September 24, 2003

Bedford books: Travel Guides
	Bedford Street Plan and Guide Price: £2.20 Publication: February 2005
	Bedford to Wellingborough: Including Hitchin, Northampton & Higham Ferrers The Hitchin-Bedford route formed part of the Midland Railway's first line for London trains. Its subsequent secondary nature is fully illustrated, along with the lesser lines to Northampton Castle and Higham Ferrers. Price: £14.95 Publication: June 2004
	Bedford: Bromham / Ampthill / Flitwick Price: £2.75 Publication: May 1, 2003

Bedford books: History & Heritage
	Bedford by the River Price: £3.50 Publication: May 2003
	Glad for God: A History of the Bousfields of Newark and Bedford to 1903 The history of the Bousfield families of Newark and Bedford from the late 18th century to the beginning of the 20th. The author includes details of the career of Edward Tenney Bousfield who made major, though unacknowledged, contributions to agricultural equipment while working for J&F Howard of Bedford for 45 years. It is the story of 19th-century England in microcosm, showing how the lives of both ordinary and extraordinary people were fundamentally reshaped by the new society that emerged and by the new opportunities and new beliefs that helped to form it. Price: £16.95 Publication: December 15, 2003
	The Bedford Boys: One Small Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice 'The tide had crept up behind Nance, drowning Company A men who no longer had the strength to crawl. Nance had trained them. He had tried to be good to them. He had read their last love letters. As he now lay on the blood-stained pebbles below Vierville sur Mer, drifting in and out of consciousness, he still felt responsible for them, every last one. "I was their officer. It was my duty ... They were the finest soldiers I ever saw. I loved those men."' The memorable opening scene of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, which portrayed the appalling scenario on Omaha Beach, where allied bombs had failed to knock out German gun emplacements or do any damage whatsoever to beach defences was loosely based on Bedford's story. The first wave of seasick young GIs were being tipped out into the tide to be picked off by waiting machine gun fire and shelling, acting more as target practice than a tangible threat. Bodies and dissected limbs of the fallen lined the watermark like flotsam. Incredible bravery and luck did in some instances prevail, and with the help of a more successful bombing campaign later in the day, Omaha was finally taken. Company A was in that first wave of landings - known, jokingly as 'the suicide wave' by soldiers before the attack. Many of Bedford's young recruits to the US Army found themselves training and fighting together in Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division - a company which was all but obliterated by the end of the Longest Day. From small town lives - wives, fiancees and childhoods - to training in the UK and those fateful D-Day landings and on to the aftermath, Alex Kershaw creates a vivid and haunting portrait of one town's loss. Price: £6.39 Publication: May 4, 2004

Bedford books: General Interest
	West Yorkshire: Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield Price: £7.66 Publication: May 1, 2004

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