Churchill's Iceman : The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke : Genius, Fugitive, Spy (Record no. 28725)
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| fixed length control field | 01661nam a22001697a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780099594130 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 941.082092 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Hemming, Henry |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Churchill's Iceman : The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke : Genius, Fugitive, Spy |
| Statement of responsibility | Henry Hemming |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London |
| Name of publisher | Arrow Books |
| Year of publication | 2015 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xi,548 Pages |
| Other physical details | 13x20 cm |
| -- | PB |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke : Genius, Fugitive, Spy. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Include Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography and Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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, ‘one of the most original if unrecognised figures’ 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 Mass Observation movement, escaped from a German concentration camp, devised an ingenious plan to get ambulances and microscopes to the Spanish Republicans for free 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. But there was another side to this man. Pyke, it seems, was a man with a secret. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Spies |
| -- | Great Britain |
| -- | Pyke, Geoffrey |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Non-fiction | Garrison Public Library Multan | Garrison Public Library Multan | General Stacks | 2017-04-12 | CRV/GPLM/12/2016 | 676.00 | 941.082092 H487C 2015 | 32695 | Books |