The Ingenious Mr. Pyke: Inventor, Fugitive, Spy

411 Pages·2015·4.7 MB·English

by  Henry Hemming

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Copyright © 2015 by Henry Hemming.
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‘The fact is, if I may put the point in a somewhat comical way, that I have been
literally attached by God to our city, as if to a horse – a large thoroughbred,
which is a bit sluggish because of its size and needs to be aroused by some sort
of gadfly. Yes, in me, I believe, God has attached to our city just such a creature
– the kind which is constantly alighting everywhere on you, all day long,
arousing, cajoling, or reproaching each and every one of you. You will not easily
acquire another such gadfly.’
Socrates in Plato’s The Defence of Socrates
CONTENTS
Author’s Note
Introduction
PART I
How to Become a War Correspondent
How to Escape
How to Become Invisible
Pyke Hunt, Part 1
How to Raise Your Child (and Pay for It)
PART II
How to Resolve an Epidemic of Anti-Semitism, a Royal Scandal and the Threat
of Fascism
How to Prevent a War
Pyke Hunt, Part 2
How to Defeat Nazism
Pyke Hunt, Part 3
How to Change the Military Mind
Pyke Hunt, Part 4
How to Succeed in America
Pyke Hunt, Part 5
How to Win the War with Ice
How to Survive
How to Live
Pyke Hunt, Part 6
Epilogue, or, How to Think Like a Genius
Notes
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Index