The Resource Churchill's iceman : the true story of Geoffrey Pyke - genius, fugitive, spy, Henry Hemming
Churchill's iceman : the true story of Geoffrey Pyke - genius, fugitive, spy, Henry Hemming
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The item Churchill's iceman : the true story of Geoffrey Pyke - genius, fugitive, spy, Henry Hemming represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 548 pages
- Note
- Originally published: London: Preface Publishing, 2014
- Isbn
- 9780099594130
- Label
- Churchill's iceman : the true story of Geoffrey Pyke - genius, fugitive, spy
- Title
- Churchill's iceman
- Title remainder
- the true story of Geoffrey Pyke - genius, fugitive, spy
- Statement of responsibility
- Henry Hemming
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- StDuBDS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1979-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hemming, Henry
- Dewey number
-
- 941'.082'092
- 941'.082'092
- 941.082092
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Pyke, Geoffrey
- Great Britain
- Educators
- Inventors
- Jews
- Spies
- Biography
- Label
- Churchill's iceman : the true story of Geoffrey Pyke - genius, fugitive, spy, Henry Hemming
- Note
- Originally published: London: Preface Publishing, 2014
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9780099594130
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- 548 pages
- Isbn
- 9780099594130
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white)
- Label
- Churchill's iceman : the true story of Geoffrey Pyke - genius, fugitive, spy, Henry Hemming
- Note
- Originally published: London: Preface Publishing, 2014
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9780099594130
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- 548 pages
- Isbn
- 9780099594130
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white)
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