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Object Details

Category
Books
Related period
Second World War (content), Second World War (content)
Creator
Probert, Henry (Author)
Brassey's (Publisher)
Production date
1995
Place made
London
Dimensions

whole: Dimensions: 24cm., Pagination: xvii, 381p. ill., frontis., maps, plans, ports.

Catalogue number
LBY 95 / 1944

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