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Defending the Rock: Gibraltar and the Second World War
Nicholas Rankin
Nicholas Rankin's revelatory book, whose cast of characters includes Haile Selassie, Anthony Burgess and General Sikorski, sets Gibraltar in the wider context of the struggle against Fascism, from Italy's invasion of Abyssinia, through the Spanish Civil War, to the end of the Second World War.
672 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 4, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9780571307722 |
| Publishers | Faber & Faber |
| Pages | 688 |
| Dimensions | 198 × 132 × 42 mm · 546 g |
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