Community under stress an internment camp culture

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Category: Books
Related period: Second World War (content), Second World War (content)
Creator: VAUGHAN, ELIZABETH HEAD (Author)
Princeton University Press (Publisher)
Production date: 1949
Place made: Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
Dimensions: whole: Dimensions: ?cm., Pagination: xiv, 160p., 4p. of plates ill., plans
Catalogue number: LBY 27041

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