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How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.
David Gemmell
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David Gemmell
Age: 57 †
Born: 1948
Born: August 1
Died: 2006
Died: July 28
Author
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London
England
David Andrew Gemmell
Ross Harding
War
Discovered
Dream
Bones
Many
Despair
Never
Loss
Victors
Dreams
Desolation
Wonder
Wonders
Within
Trapped
Lying
Hopes
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