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Far East

by Cecil Beaton

This book presents a collection of wartime photographs commissioned by the Ministry of Information during the Second World War, documenting the Blitz, theatres of war in the Middle East and East Asia, and the final days of the British Raj.

Accession 31806 ISBN — Publisher B. T. Batsford
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