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Geoffrey Nathaniel Joseph Pyke (9 November 1893 – 21 February 1948) was an English journalist, educationalist, and inventor. Pyke came to public attention when he escaped from internment in Germany during World War I. He had travelled to Germany under a false passport, and was soon arrested and interned.
29. Aug. 2014 · Churchill's Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy – review | Biography books | The Guardian. Geoffrey Pyke with his wife, Margaret, and son, David. Biography books....
- Lara Feigel
7. Mai 2015 · May 7, 2015. Geoffrey Pyke’s human history began with a miserable childhood and ended 54 years later when he took his own life in a boarding house outside central London. But in between, his...
- David Hugh Smith
26. Aug. 2014 · The British inventor Geoffrey Pyke lived the kind of life normally chronicled in adventure novels. He escaped from a World War I German internment camp, built a fortune on the stock exchange...
In his Times obituary he was described as one of the 20th century’s ‘most original if unrecognised figures’, an epithet which remains true today. For more, see the new biography of Pyke – Churchill’s Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy out now with Penguin Random House.
15. Jan. 2014 · This is the third extract from Dick’s wartime diaries, adapted by his nephew Roger Coasby, and it gives a personal insight into those exciting days at Hatfield in the early 1940’s. De Havilland Test Pilot Geoffrey Pike.
From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest SpymasterIn the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds. An inventor,...
