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Churchill's Iceman
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, âe~one of the most original if unrecognised figuresâe(tm) 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. He gave birth to the...
The Ingenious Mr. Pyke
The untold story of an enigmatic genius who changed warfare forever In the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds—to rank alongside Einstein. Pyke was an inventor, adventurer, polymath, and unlikely hero of both world wars. He earned a fortune on the stock market, founded an influential pre-school, wrote a bestseller, and came up with the idea for the US and Canadian Special Forces. In 1942, he convinced Winston Churchill to build an aircraft carrier out of reinforced ice. Pyke escaped from a German WWI prison camp, devised an ingenious plan to help the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, and launched a private attempt to avert the outbreak of the...
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Financing of Secret Weapons: Project Habakkuk; Geoffrey Pyke (CAB301-63).
A file of correspondence concerning the upkeep of Geoffrey Pyke while working on the 'Habakkuk' project and the development of 'Weasel' vehicles in the United States of America and Canada. Subjects covered in the file include the administration of Pyke's salary under various secret and military departments during his time in America and on his return; expenses for the projects that he worked on; plans for financial and technological collaboration with Canada and the USA on these projects; outstanding salary payments still owed to Pyke in 1944 by Combined Operations Headquarters (COHQ); and a newspaper cutting on the development of the 'Weasel' from February 1945.
To Ruhleben - And Back
The second title re-released by our Collins Library imprint, To Ruhleben And Back is the first eyewitness account of a German concentration camp. Lost to obscurity for over eighty years, Geoffrey Pyke¿s extraordinary book is a college student's sharp-tongued travelogue, a journey of hair-breadth escapes behind enemy lines, a sober meditation on imprisonment and escape ¿ and, as Pyke intended, a ripping yarn.
The Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography
The most comprehensive reference book of its kind, with more than 60 new entries in this third edition.
George J. Klein
This book is the official biography of George J. Klein, a design engineer who spent 40 years at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and was considered "the most productive inventor in Canada in the 20th Century". The book recounts Klein's family history and personal life.
Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions
Takes us into the bizarre and often humorous lives of such people as Lady Blount, who was sure that the earth is flat, Cyrus Teed, who believed that the earth is a hollow shell with us in the inside; Edward Hine, who believed that the British are the lost Tribes of Israel; and Baron de Guldenstubbe, who was sure that statues wrote him letters. British writer and housewife Nesta Webster devoted her life to exposing international conspiracies, and Father O'Callaghan devoted his to opposing interest on loans. The extraordinary characters in this book were and in some cases still are wholehearted enthusiasts for the various causes and outrageous notions they adopted, and John Michell describes their adventures with spirit and compassion.
