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Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

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David Gemmell
Age: 57 †
Born: 1948
Born: August 1
Died: 2006
Died: July 28
Author
Writer
London
England
David Andrew Gemmell
Ross Harding
Places
Cannot
Need
Revisionists
Great
Dismantle
Needs
Societies
Heroes
Travel
Hero

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