Churchill's iceman : the true story of Geoffrey Pyke : genius, fugitive, spy / Henry Hemming.
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TextPublisher: London : Preface Publishing, 2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 548 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Pyke, Geoffrey | Educators -- Great Britain -- Biography | Inventors -- Great Britain -- Biography | Jews -- Great Britain -- Biography | Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography | Great Britain -- BiographyDDC classification: 941.082092 Summary: There is no reason why you should have heard of Geoffrey Pyke. After his suicide in 1948 he was described as one of the great geniuses of his time, to rank alongside Einstein, yet he remains today, as The Times put it, 'one of the most original if unrecognised figures' of the twentieth century. Inventor, escapee, campaigner, war correspondent, Pyke was an unlikely hero of both world wars and is seen today as the father of the U.S. Special Forces. He changed the landscape of British pre-school education, earned a fortune on the stock market, wrote a bestseller and in 1942 convinced Churchill and Lord Mountbatten to build an aircraft carrier out of reinforced ice.
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| JKRC Social Science Complex | JKRC Social Science Complex | 941.082092 HEM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PN107084 | BCL1403 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 504-511) and index.
There is no reason why you should have heard of Geoffrey Pyke. After his suicide in 1948 he was described as one of the great geniuses of his time, to rank alongside Einstein, yet he remains today, as The Times put it, 'one of the most original if unrecognised figures' of the twentieth century. Inventor, escapee, campaigner, war correspondent, Pyke was an unlikely hero of both world wars and is seen today as the father of the U.S. Special Forces. He changed the landscape of British pre-school education, earned a fortune on the stock market, wrote a bestseller and in 1942 convinced Churchill and Lord Mountbatten to build an aircraft carrier out of reinforced ice.
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