Code Name Habbakuk: A Secret Ship Made of Ice (Amazing Stories)

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In late 1942, Britain used to be 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 used to be needed to continue the war effort. Prime Minister Churchill needed to discover a solution to the carnage or the Nazis would be victorious. With the improve 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 give protection to shipping from predatory U-boat wolf packs.

This is the fascinating story of the upward thrust and fall of Project Habbakuk and how an outlandish inventor, the British Navy, the National Research Council of Canada and a body of workers of conscientious objectors tested the unusual concept within the Canadian Rocky Mountains, far from the theatre of war.

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