ASIN: B00JPLWHYC
Publisher: Candy Jar Books
Pages: 288
If you've ever said, "Well, I'll be hanged!" you probably don't know what actually happens in an execution chamber. Geoff Abbott does – he's even had a hangman drop a noose around his neck! 'From Butcher's Boy to Beefeater' is a riveting account of former Beefeater, Geoffrey Abbott's extraordinary life. Join paratroopers, as he did, in their airborne training... experience conditions aboard a troopship in the U-boat-infested waters of the Atlantic... endure a torpedo attack in the Indian Ocean during WWII... or find out what it's like to live in a haunted Royal Palace. Discover how to hold a heron; how to cope on a safari with a big-game hunter; belly-dance in the approved Baghdad manner; or carry an occupied coffin. Find out how Geoff was invited to choose the President of the United States; how he's been a Member of the Queen's Bodyguard, and how he knows how to fly a helicopter ...
