‘If War Should Come’: Preparing the Fifth Arm for Total War 1935-1939

Journal of Contemporary History

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1981, Pages 27-51

  Taylor, Philip M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84977216411     PISSN: 00220094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002200948101600103     Document Type: Article

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