Churchill's iceman : the true story of Geoffrey Pyke - genius, fugitive, spy
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Churchill's iceman : the true story of Geoffrey Pyke - genius, fugitive, spy
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The work Churchill's iceman : the true story of Geoffrey Pyke - genius, fugitive, spy represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Churchill's iceman : the true story of Geoffrey Pyke - genius, fugitive, spy
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- the true story of Geoffrey Pyke - genius, fugitive, spy
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- Henry Hemming
- Language
- eng
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- Inventor, escapee, campaigner, war correspondent, Pyke was an unlikely hero of both World Wars and is seen today as the father of 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. He gave birth to the Mass Observation movement, escaped from a German concentration camp, devised an ingenious plan to get ambulances and microscopes to the Spanish Republicans fro free and launched a private attempt to avert the outbreak of World Warl II by sending into Nazi Germany a group of pollsters disguised as golfers. But there was another side to this man. Pyke, it seems, was a man with a secret
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- individual biography
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- StDuBDS
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- 941'.082'092
- 941'.082'092
- 941.082092
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- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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