Wojtek Album : a collection of Wojtek photographs and anecdotes

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Object Details

Category: Books
Related period: Second World War (content), Second World War (content)
Creator: Ivell, Krystyna M. (Author)
Baczor, Vic (Author)
Krystyna Ivell (Publisher)
Production date: 2013
Place made: London
Dimensions: whole: Dimensions: 25x35cm., Pagination: xii, 188p.: chiefly ill. (some col.), facsims., figs., map, ports.
Catalogue number: LBY 16 / 2960

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

Polish Army
Polish Armed Forces in the West, Polish Corps, II
Polish Armed Forces in the West, 2nd Corps, 22 Artillery Support Company
Wojtek the Bear
Associated places

Poland
Associated subjects

Bear
bears
Associated themes

Polish Army in the Middle East and Italy, 1942-1945
2nd Polish Corps in the Italian Campaign
Poland 1939-1945
Polish Armed Forces 1939-1945
Animals at War
Italian Campaign 1943-1945, Second World War

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