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Geoffrey Bird

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The United Kingdom

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http://www.geoffreybird.co.uk

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Ebooks

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What are your five favourite books. Why?

The Cruel Sea (Nicholas Monsarrat).
This is a book I return to time and time again. For me it has everything: drama, action, love, treachery, honour, bravery, every element of the human condition and, most of all, it’s not about impossibly heroic characters - it’s about very ordinary people dealing with a war and dealing with the effects of that war. It is moving, uplifting, harrowing and stirring. Truly a marvellous story.

Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry).
An epic tale, brilliantly written. Gus and Call are memorable characters and the descriptions of people and situations are superb. A deeply moving story.

Shadow Hunters (David Mace)
A Cold War tale of a hunt for an enemy who may or may not be there. A ver ...more

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	One Man's Empire 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2008 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Linden Grove it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jim Dagger it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grand Circle it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Battlefield Events (Routledge Advances in Event Research Series) by Geoffrey Bird (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Geoffrey Bird (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laura James (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dagger 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Managing and Interpreting D-Day's Sites of Memory: Guardians of remembrance by Geoffrey Bird (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sean Claxton (Editor), Keir Reeves (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Battlefield Events: Landscape, commemoration and heritage (Routledge Advances in Event Research Series) by Keir Reeves (Editor), Geoffrey Bird (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laura James (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The writer Irving Wallace recounted a story of one motion-picture studio head who complained to his story editor about the writers they had under weekly salary. ‘Whenever I look up at the Writer’s Building,’ the executive said, ‘I find half of them staring out of their windows. Why in the hell aren’t they writing?’ Nothing could convince him that staring out of the window was more often than not a Read more of this blog post »

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