Object details

Category
Books
Related period
Interwar (content)
Creator
DALBY, ANDREW (Author)
MAKERS OF THE MODERN WORLD (Author)
PEACE CONFERENCES OF 1919-23 AND THEIR AFTERMATH (Author)
Haus Histories (Publisher)
Place made
London
Dimensions

whole: Dimensions: 21cm., Pagination: xii, 218p., 3p. of plates: map, plan, ports.

Catalogue number
LBY 18 / 57

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