Thank God and the infantry : from D-Day to VE-Day with the 1st Battalion the Royal Norfolk Regiment

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Category: Books
Related period: Second World War (content), Second World War (content)
Creator: LINCOLN, JOHN (Author)
Alan Sutton (Publisher)
Production date: 1994
Place made: Stroud, Gloucestershire
Dimensions: whole: Dimensions: 24cm., Pagination: x, 229p.: ill., frontis., ports.
Catalogue number: LBY 95 / 246

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