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Code Name Habbakuk - A Secret Ship Made of Ice (Paperback)
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Code Name Habbakuk - A Secret Ship Made of Ice (Paperback)
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In late 1942, Britain was desperate to win the ongoing Battle of
the Atlantic. German U-boats had sunk hundreds of Allied ships
containing millions of tons of cargo that was needed to continue
the war effort. Prime Minister Churchill had to find a solution to
the carnage or the Nazis would be victorious. With the support of
Churchill and Lord Louis Mountbatten, eccentric inventor and
amateur spy Geoffrey Pyke proposed a dramatic project to build
invincible ships of ice - massive, unsinkable aircraft carriers
that would roam the mid-Atlantic servicing fighter planes and
bombers on missions to protect shipping from predatory U-boat wolf
packs. This is the fascinating story of the rise and fall of
Project Habbakuk and how an outlandish inventor, the British Navy,
the National Research Council of Canada and a workforce of
conscientious objectors tested the bizarre concept in the Canadian
Rocky Mountains, far from the theatre of war.
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