Twice the Man

Rod Angell has woven the details of his eventful life into a vivid story of “rags to a comparatively comfortable retirement.”He was born in 1929 the year of the Wall Street Crash and the poverty of his family struggling in the Depression to live and care for their children on a scanty income; however all this was of lesser importance to him in later life than being born in the same year as Popeye!Follow the account of a Yorkshire tyke as he reveals in quite vivid detail the life of a childhood in the ’30s enduring all the gamut of childhood ailments and disease in a time before drugs antibiotics and the wonder of penicillin.He discusses life as a wartime evacuee progressing with humorous anecdotes and drama into a challenging action-filled life as a Grenadier Guardsman on active service and then a drummer to the Royal Household with all the pomp and ceremony that was his lot. He also tells of the many royal and state occasions he was a part of. The final part of his working life was as a firefighter with its many challenges ending his career in the rank of divisional commander.This book is not the story of two men but of one who after a demanding life as a soldier followed by a dangerous one as a firefighter surely became twice the man he was.