From Butcher's Boy to Beefeater (Paperback)

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. All this, and much more, is in Geoffrey Abbott's extraordinary autobiography - read and enjoy!