Dawn on our darkness the summer of 1940

Object details

Category: Books
Related period: Second World War (content), Second World War (content)
Creator: PARKINSON, ROGER (Author)
Granada Publishing (Publisher)
Production date: 1977
Place made: St. Albans, Hertfordshire
Dimensions: whole: Dimensions: 23cm., Pagination: 236p., 8p. of plates
Catalogue number: LBY 84 / 251

Object associations

Associated places

Aerial operations over Great Britain 1914-1918, 1939-1945
Aerial operations over UK 1914-1918, 1939-1945
Associated subjects

aerial operations, air warfare, air fighting
second world war, aerial operations over great britain, u k
battle of britain
aerial operations, air warfare, air fighting
second world war, aerial operations over great britain, u k
blitz

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