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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.
- Geoffrey Nathaniel Joseph Pyke, 9 November 1893
- Margaret Amy Chubb
- 21 February 1948 (aged 54), Hampstead, London, U.K.
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
Geoffrey Pyke was an old friend of J. D. Bernal and had been recommended to Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations, by the cabinet minister Leopold Amery. Pyke worked at Combined Operations Headquarters (COHQ) alongside Bernal and was regarded as a genius by Mountbatten. [1]
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.
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,...
