U-Boats in the Atlantic
A Selection of German Wartime Photographs from the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
by Paul Beaver ; Germany
ISBN: 0850593883
ISBN-13: 9780850593884
Format: Paperback
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Publisher: P. Stephens
Published date: 1979
Pages: 95
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