The Germans and the East.
9781557534439
The Germans and the East.
Ed. by Charles Ingrao and Franz A.J. Szabo.
Purdue University Press
2008
458 pages
$52.95
Paperback
Central European studies
DJK28
Ingrao (history, Purdue U.,
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