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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.

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I have to be the naysayer here. Oh, the subject was great: Pyke was a real character, and deserves his plaudits as a brilliant yet poorly understood 20th century man of many interests. Certainly a fellow who could be interested in journalism, espionage, education, science, and philosophy all in one lifetime deserves a well written biography. In some ways he reminded me of Turing, in how he really was unable to fit in with the rest of society.But, my gosh, this book is tedious! On and on goes the author over the minutiae of things Pyke did or thought, or places he went, and many times repetitively. There were numerous places where I wanted to just skip ahead to something relevant.But here's my real gripe. The book was not original. I went online to find Pyke's own best-selling book from 1916 about his exploits during World War I. It is readily available online free in full scanned form. And no surprise, Pyke's own story is almost verbatim repeated here in this biography's first sections. If I read someone's life story, then write it down again just as he told it, but sign my own name, well we have a word for that sort of thing.I hope the author sends his royalties to the Pyke estate!

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