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Barnes Wallis : Dambuster Peter Pugh
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Author: Peter PughDate: 06 Oct 2005
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Language: English
Book Format: Hardback::304 pages
ISBN10: 1840466855
ISBN13: 9781840466850
Filename: barnes-wallis-dambuster.pdf
Dimension: 130x 200x 29mm::399g
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