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More Light On World War One

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

John Stevenson
John Stevenson
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University of Sheffield
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The Historical Journal , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 195 - 210
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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