Object details

Category
Books
Related period
First World War (content), Second World War (content), First World War (content), Second World War (content)
Creator
BOURNE, STEPHEN (Author)
I.B. Tauris (Publisher)
Production date
2017
Place made
London
Dimensions

whole: Dimensions: 23cm., Pagination: xix, 236p., 16p. of plates: ill., facsims., ports.

Catalogue number
LBY 17 / 1826

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