Object details

Category
Books
Related period
Second World War (content), Interwar (content)
Creator
ALEXANDER, PETER (Author)
Oxford University Press (Publisher)
Production date
1982
Place made
Oxford
Dimensions

whole: Dimensions: 24cm., Pagination: x, 277p., 12p. of plates ill., ports.

Catalogue number
LBY 82 / 1079

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