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Albany Historical Society Inc > Records

THE VICTORY BOOK

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c. 1945

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Red leather hard cover, embossed, with gold lettering on spine. Illustrated end papers in colour. 320 pages, illustrated, photographs, frontis - His Majesty King George VI (in black and white), colour picture opposite of London burning, and on the back of this picture, Sir Winston Churchill. Inside book between pages 62-63 is an embossed Christmas book mark.

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cwa-org-51-B2005.21

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Photographic record of the war, celebrating the unconditional surrender of Germany, on Monday, May 7th 1945.

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Sunday, 27 September, 2020

Albany Historical Society Inc

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