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Geoffrey Powell (1914–2005)

Author of The Devil's Birthday: The Bridges to Arnhem 1944

11 Works 208 Members 2 Reviews

About the Author

Includes the names: Tom Angus, Geoffrey Powell; Foreword John Hackett

Series

Works by Geoffrey Powell

The Devil's Birthday: The Bridges to Arnhem 1944 (1984) 85 copies

Men at Arnhem (1976) 43 copies

PLUMER: THE SOLDIER'S GENERAL (Pen & Sword Military Classics) (1990) 28 copies

Suez: The Double War (1979) — Joint Author. — 23 copies

The History of the Green Howards: Three Hundred Years of Service (1992) 10 copies

Green Howards (A Leo Cooper book) (1968) 6 copies

Buller : a scapegoat? : a life of General Sir Redvers Buller 1839-1908 (1994) 5 copies

The Kandyan Wars: The British army in Ceylon, 1803-1818 (19th century military campaigns) (1973) 4 copies

Book of Campden: History in Stone (Town Books) (1984) 2 copies

Soldat ved Arnhem (2009) 1 copy

කන්ද උඩරට සටන් (2009) 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Powell, Geoffrey Stewart
Other names: Angus, Tom (pseudonym)
Birthdate: 1914-12-25
Date of death: 2005-01-05
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Places of residence: Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK (birth)
Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Occupations: soldier
military historian
bookshop owner
Organizations: Green Howards
The Parachute Regiment
MI5
King's African Rifles
Yorkshire Brigade
Awards and honors: Military Cross
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

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The devil's birthday : the bridges to Arnhem,… by Geoffrey Powell

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theww2library | Dec 17, 2021 |

Plumer: The Soldier’s General (Pen and Sword… by Geoffrey Powell

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Lagow | Apr 25, 2020 |

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Works: 11
Members: 208
Popularity: #106,482
Rating: ½ 3.6

Reviews: 2
ISBNs: 46
Languages: 4

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