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(More customer reviews)Naval pilots are amongst the most skilled in the world if only because of the extremely limited space they have on which to land. In any other situation, any runway that was hard to find because of adverse weather conditions and, even if you did find it, it was moving and heaving in a storm-tossed sea, the airport itself would have been closed down hours ago. For a naval pilot, however, these are the daily trials of life and death in addition to those of warfare.
For naval pilot Admiral Sir John Treacher to have become the professional head of the Royal Navy's world-wide fleet at the age of just 50 years tells me he was very likely to have gone on to much greater things. Like one of the officers he succeeded on two occasions, perhaps he was destined to become Admiral of the Fleet with a seat in the House of Lords. Of course, we shall never know because he suddenly decided on a complete career change and, having made that decision, his successful transition from "Wardroom to Boardroom" was inevitable.
This is not one of those obligatory biographies from a newly retired senior officer who hopes his own record of his own achievements will somehow show he really did make a significant contribution to military history after all. Treacher served through 35 of the most interesting years in British naval history - including WW2, the Korean conflict and beyond. During that time and in many ways, this man did play a small but significant part in that history. Then, suddenly, but while he was still young enough to start all over again, he opted for a second career. His time in the boardroom was equally fascinating and is made just as equally exciting by this easy-to-read biography.
Truly recommended good reading where even the complicated is made easy to understand.
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