Object details

Category
Books
Related period
Second World War (content), Second World War (content)
Creator
FLEMING, PETER (Author)
Rupert Hart-Davis (Publisher)
Production date
1957
Place made
London
Dimensions

whole: Dimensions: 23cm., Pagination: 323p., 24p. of plates ill., facsims., frontis., maps, ports.

Catalogue number
LBY 37751

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