Object details

Category
Books
Related period
Second World War (content)
Creator
GILBERT, MARTIN (Author)
Weidenfeld and Nicolson (Publisher)
Production date
1989
Place made
London
Dimensions

whole: Dimensions: 26cm., Pagination: xix, 846p., 64p. of plates ill., maps, plans, ports.

Catalogue number
LBY 89 / 1707

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