Author: Geoffrey Pyke
Publisher: London : [s.n.]
ISBN:
Category : Escapes
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
To Ruhleben, and Back
Author: Geoffrey Pyke
Publisher: London : [s.n.]
ISBN:
Category : Escapes
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: London : [s.n.]
ISBN:
Category : Escapes
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In Ruhleben
Author: Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
Publisher:
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Category : Political prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In Ruhleben Camp
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concentration camps
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concentration camps
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The History of Ruhleben
Author: Joseph Powell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books [annual]
Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Barbed Wire Disease
Author: Adolf Lucas Vischer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nervous system
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nervous system
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Our American Adventure
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Ruhleben Prison Camp
Author: Israel Cohen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Ingenious Mr. Pyke
Author: Henry Hemming
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610395786
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
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 Second World War by sending into Nazi Germany a group of pollsters disguised as golfers. And he may have been a Russian spy. In 2009, long after Pyke's death, MI5 released a mass of material suggesting that Pyke was in fact a senior official in the Soviet Comintern. In 1951, papers relating to Pyke were found in the flat of "Cambridge Spy" Guy Burgess after his defection to Moscow. MI5 had "watchers" follow Pyke through the bombed-out streets of London, his letters were opened, and listening devices picked up clues to his real identity. Convinced he was a Soviet agent codenamed Professor P, MI5 helped to bring his career to an end. Henry Hemming is the first reporter to sift through this extraordinary new information and finally tell Pyke's astonishing story in full: his brilliance, his flaws, and his life of adventures, ideas, and secrets.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610395786
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
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 Second World War by sending into Nazi Germany a group of pollsters disguised as golfers. And he may have been a Russian spy. In 2009, long after Pyke's death, MI5 released a mass of material suggesting that Pyke was in fact a senior official in the Soviet Comintern. In 1951, papers relating to Pyke were found in the flat of "Cambridge Spy" Guy Burgess after his defection to Moscow. MI5 had "watchers" follow Pyke through the bombed-out streets of London, his letters were opened, and listening devices picked up clues to his real identity. Convinced he was a Soviet agent codenamed Professor P, MI5 helped to bring his career to an end. Henry Hemming is the first reporter to sift through this extraordinary new information and finally tell Pyke's astonishing story in full: his brilliance, his flaws, and his life of adventures, ideas, and secrets.
Advertising World
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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