Almost A Boffin by EE Vielle (.ePUB)
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Almost A Boffin by EE Vielle
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Overview: To continue to live life to the full at 100 years old is quite amazing! In this exhilarating, exciting and at times emotional book EE Vielle takes us through a life which involved several different careers. His early childhood memories draw you into a forgotten world. The threat of hunger during the Great Depression led him away from university to the RAF and flying 150 types of aircraft, not without incident! He guides you through an unexpected account of WW11 which includes mysterious happenings between scientists and some, to date unpublicised, treacherous acts with far reaching implications. His optimism, purpose and enthusiasm are what he sees as the markers for his long and fulfilling life. There is still a twinkle in the eye and an unending supply of jokes and stories told in a compelling manner. We can see now the vision he had in his previous books and one has to ask what his future is now? He will tell you.
At age 43, having survived (and thoroughly enjoyed) 25 years of flying 150 different types of aircraft, and then being faced with having to serve in desk jobs with little further prospect of much flying, “Tubby” Vielle accepted the offer of twice the salary of an Air Marshal to retire from the RAF and become Managing Director of a company set up to develop further and commercialise his invention of an airborne anti-collision system for aircraft (and ships).
He also wrote two novels which were based on his own flying experiences. Both, after being edited and published under different names by ghost writers, were world-wide best sellers and translated into over 20 languages. That, and the sale of the film rights for the first, resulted in Tubby taking up residence in Switzerland, writing more novels and engaging in other interesting pursuits – including becoming involved in trying to recover the Rommel Treasure from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea and inventing a method of investing which, in ten years, turned £32,000 into over £7,000,000.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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