Jo Hook Joins the Sophie's Great War Tours Family

I’m delighted to announce that Jo Hook has joined the Sophie’s Great War Tours family as one of our expert guides.

Jo will be leading tours to Arnhem and Normandy and will also be our expert guide on a specialist trip looking at action in both 1918 & 1940.

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Providing the very best experiences for my customers is always my number one priority, and so bringing onboard an amazing guide like Jo to lead certain tours was a no brainer.

Jo Hook

The daughter of a Second World War Soldier, Jo first became interested in military history when listening to her father talk of his wartime experiences in North Africa.   In adult life, Jo worked for the MOD in Hong Kong. On her return to the UK, she enlisted in the Territorial Army as a Royal Signals soldier. It was at this stage that Jo first got involved in the planning and management of a series of Battlefield Studies for her unit.  A move to Germany allowed her to study Operation Market Garden and to build up crucial experience as a guide, working for a Battlefield Tour Operator.  Enthused by guiding, Jo joined the International Guild of Battlefield Guides in 2004. She gained accreditation status and was awarded her GBG Badge by the late Professor Richard Holmes in 2010. 

Jo has wide ranging interests across numerous aspects of military history. Having served as a Royal Signals soldier on operations in Bosnia in 1995, she feels she has the ability to empathise with the men and women who fought during both world wars. It is the combination of her own personal experiences on operations, and her enthusiastic study of military history and battlefields that allow Jo to empathise with the soldiers of the past. On every tour Jo consistently does her utmost to help her group view the battlefields and the events that took place there, through the eyes of those who fought.

In 2017 Jo achieved a Masters Degree in military history from the University of Wolverhampton under the tutelage of Professor Gary Sheffield.   She has also worked with Battlefield History TV in the production of a series of DVDs concentrating on Operation Market Garden.