Peter Horsley

Sounds From Another Room (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a memoir with a difference, Its author, Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley, was deprived in his earliest years of both parents. The youngest by several years of a family of seven, he has what he himself describes as 'a miserable start'. Though given a traditional middle-class upbringing through the generosity of relations, his restless spirit led him to leave school and go to sea, living a tough life as a cross between a cadet and a deck hand before escaping once again- on this occasion to join the Royal Air Force on the outbreak of war in 1939. While Peter Horsley's career in the RAF necessarily forms much of the backcloth to his story there is so much more here besides. He sees his life as a house, each room of which marks an incident or period of such intensity that it altered his whole pattern of life thereafter. The corridors between those rooms mark the passage of time. Some of the incidents he describes brought him into great danger and very close to death- as when he survived three days and nights adrift in a rubber dinghy in storm force confditions, having been shot down during a night on the Cherbourg Peninsular and, much more recently, when he and his car were used as the innocent tools in a terrorist gang to bring about the murder of a former officer of the Special Air Service. Others had a deep effect for quite different reasons- such as the seven years in the personal service of Her Majesty the Queen and HRH Prince Philip as Equerry, or his intriguing encounters with psychic phenomena, all true but described in town-to-earth terms which make no attempt to explain the inexplainable. Peter Horsley is an intensely human and sympathetic man and his writing contains many passages of great sensitivity. His description of the storm which so very nearly cost him his life must stand as a classic amongst Second World War stories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen and Sword
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1990
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473818446
• Artikelnr.: 41215663

Autorenporträt

Peter Horsley was born in West Hartlepool in 1921. Educated at the Dragon School and Wellington College, he joined the Royal Air Force on the outbreak of war, serving in 2nd TAF and Fighter Command. Following the war he had a distinguished career in the RAF, rising to the rank of Air Marshal, and was knighted by the Queen in 1974. During his service he was, first, Equerry to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh then to the Queen and finally to the Duke of Edinburgh He resigned from the RAF in 1975 to go into bussiness, and become Chairman of several companies in the fields of aviation, philately and printing. He has two children and four step-children, and lives in the countryside in Hampshire with his second wife.