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Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Sneum, Mark Ryan describes how Tommy made an incredible escape from Denmark in a battered old Hornet Moth aircraft - which he had to refuel in mid-air by climbing out on the wing. Later, he escaped from Denmark again - by walking across a treacherous frozen sea on which two of his companions died. Tommy brought over precious intelligence about the Nazi radar installations in Denmark and their atom bomb - his reward was to be imprisoned in Brixton as a suspected double agent and threatened with execution. He cheated the hangman - but it is only with the publication of this enthralling book that Sneum can be celebrated as, in the words of Professor R.V. Jones, Churchill's chief of scientific intelligence, 'one of the true heroes of World War II'.
About the Author
A graduate of Brown University and the University of Wisconsin LawSchool, Mark Ryan has been teaching math for over 12 years. He runsthe Math Center in Winnetka, Illinois, where he teaches high schoolmath courses and a workshop for parents based on his book, The 10Habits of Highly Successful Math Students. In high school, he twicescored a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT, and he not onlyknows mathematics, he has a gift for explaining it in plainEnglish. You'll enjoy his down-to-earth style, his humor, and his manyuseful math tips and shortcuts that will enable you to DO THE MATH. Atournament backgammon player and an avid skier and tennis player, helives in Chicago.
