Object details

Category
Books
Related period
Second World War (content), Second World War (content)
Creator
THE SECOND GREAT WAR (Author)
HAMMERTON, JOHN ALEXANDER (SIR) (Author)
GWYNN, CHARLES (Author)
Waverley Book in assocation with the Amalgamated Press (Publisher)
Production date
1939
Place made
London
Dimensions

whole: Dimensions: 29cm., Pagination: 8 vols. (4076p.) ill. (some col.), maps, ports.

Catalogue number
LBY 17231

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