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Book Title: Behind Enemy Lines with the Soe
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books The Limited
Item Length: 9.2 in
Intended Audience: Adults
Modified Item: No
Subject: History
Vintage: No
Publication Year: 2021
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Era: 1940s
Author: Ernest Barker Bem
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, History, Military, War & Combat, Biography & Autobiography
Topic: Army, British Wars, Combat, Espionage, Foreign Militaries, Memoir, Military, Military / World War II, Military History, POW, SOE, True Military Stories, World War II
Subjects: History & Military
Item Width: 6 in
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
