The Times in My Life: 18 Years - 60 YearsSeeing sportsmen and women, sex sirens and other celebrities publishing books (David Beckham for example) I believe my life is far more interesting and readable, completely truthful, word for word from memory. |
Contents
Peacetime Service | 32 |
Life Aboard Vanguard The Royal Tour of | 56 |
Falkland Islands Argentinians on British | 110 |
From Marine to Compositor and Machinist | 127 |
South Africa Running my own Printing | 173 |
England Home and Civvie Street after 12 ½ | 212 |
The Prison Service Years | 229 |
Twenty years of Orderliness and Discipline | 299 |
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