BAOR Battlefield Guides

This series of Battlefield Guides were produced by Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) in 1946/47. They were designed to capitalize on the expertise still available in an attempt to help the army learn the lessons of various operations during the North West Europe Campaign fought between June 1944 and March 1945. Battlefield Historian have reproduced this series for the Battlefield Tourist, Military Historian, Wargamer or anyone with an interest in this period of the Second World War.

They covered the following operations in the Campiagn in North-West Europe (June 1944 - May 1945):

GOODWOOD	Operations of 8 Corps East of the River Orne (Normandy) 18 - 22 July 1944, with particular reference to 11th Armoured Division
BLUECOAT	Operations of 8 Corps South of Caumont (Normandy) 30 - 31 July 1944, with particular reference to 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division
TOTALIZE	Operations of 2 Canadian Corps astride the road Caen-Falaise (Normandy) 7 - 8 August 1944, with particular reference to 51st (Highland) Infantry Division.
NEPTUNE	Assault crossing of the River Seine by 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division 25 - 28 August 1944.
VERITABLE	Operations of 30 Corps between the River Maas and Rhine 8 - 10 February 1945, with particular reference to 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division
PLUNDER	Assault crossing of the River Rhine by 12 Corps 24 - 25 March 1945 with particular reference to 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division
VARSITY	Airborne operations of XVIII United States Corps (Airborne) in support of the crossing of the River Rhine 24 - 25 March 1945, with particular reference to 6th British Airborne Division
RE Normandy to the Seine Vol 1	This is the first of the This first volume of two gives details of all operations by the Royal Engineers during D-Day and up to the Seine crossing at Vernon.
RE The Seine to the Rhine Vol 1	The Seine to the Rhine. This second volume of the Royal Engineers account of the campaign in Europe 1944-1945 covers operations from after the Seine crossing to the Rhine crossing by 30 Corps in March 1945.
RE The Seine to the Rhine Vol 1	This volume contains the details of how to conduct battlefield tours covering the areas detailed in Volume 1.

These documents are incredibly rare and two of them are not attainable in any form.

We have NOT reproduced these in smaller paper formats as poor photocopies for extortionate prices like our competitors. We have scanned the originals as high quality scans and reproduced them as a downloadable PDFs in their originally presented size and form (even including the blank holding pages). Your digital download will contain a PDF High resolution version of the document for you to print in its entirety, print the pages you want as many times as you want, for whatever purpose you want. They contain all the annexes and the maps in full size as part of the document as well containing all the maps as separate downloads so that you can use the maps as you wish.