Churchill's iceman : the true story of Geoffrey Pyke : genius, escapee and spy

Hemming, Henry, 1979-2014

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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.