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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Geoffrey_PykeGeoffrey Pyke - Wikipedia

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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.

2. www.theguardian.com › books › 2014Churchill's Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius,...

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   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...

   • Autor: Lara Feigel

3. www.csmonitor.com › Books › Book-Reviews'The Ingenious Mr. Pyke' is the brilliant biography of an...

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   7. Mai 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 audacious...

   • Autor: David Hugh Smith

4. henryhemming.com › books › churchills-iceman-the-ingenious-mr-pykeHenry Hemming - Churchill's Iceman - The Ingenious Mr. Pyke

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   SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY. This is the extraordinary story of Geoffrey Pyke, an inventor, war reporter, escaped prisoner, campaigner, father, educator--and all-around misunderstood genius. In his day, he was described as one of the world's great minds, to rank alongside Einstein, yet he remains virtually unknown today.

5. warfarehistorynetwork.com › article › back-room-genius-ofBack-room Genius of World War II - Warfare History Network

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   British Scientist Geoffrey Pyke worked on the project championed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, but the carrier was never built. Among his accomplishments, Pyke was responsible for the invention of a tracked, amphibious truck, fathered the creation of a highly effective Allied assault force, and helped devise the most ingenious naval ...

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7. www.bbc.co.uk › news › avGeoffrey Pyke: The man behind the 'iceberg aircraft carrier' -...

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   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...

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   22. Mai 2014 · The Ingenious Mr. Pyke is a very engaging, inspiring, and sad biography of an odd thinker. Geoffrey Pyke is best known as the instigator of Project Habbakuk, a wild WWII plan for the Allies to build warships out of ice (actually a compound of ice and wood pulp, dubbed "pykrete" after the inventor). Hemming situates that extraordinary ...