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The Attlee Years Re-assessed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

Dilwyn Porter
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Contemporary European History , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 93 - 101
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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