Name: A Place of Strangers – A novel based on the life and times of Group Captain Peter Drury Bird
Start: 2026-06-06T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Gamecock Terrace, Tangmere Nr. Chichester, PO20 2ES Chichester, United Kingdom

$A Place of Strangers \u2013 A novel based on the life and times of Group Captain Peter Drury Bird$

Join us for a fascinating talk about the incredible life and exploits of Group Captain Peter Drury Bird: WW2 bomber pilot, International diplomat and spy.
When he died in 2014, aged 94, Peter Drury Bird was one of the last surviving Lancaster pilots of the Second World War — a man whose wartime career reads like a string of scenes from a film.
A beautifully written spy story
TV producer and author Geoffrey Seed has crafted a novel from his friendship with Peter and Joan Drury Bird and the incredible stories recounted by Peter. This talk explores how Geoffrey took the real-life feats of a valiant WWII bomber pilot and diplomat and hewed them into a gripping novel.