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Gunpowder and Glory: From Fireworks to Zeebrugge: the Short, Explosive Life of Frank Brock OBE by Harry Smee, Henry Macrory, Lord Ashcroft is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The previously untold story of Frank Brock – a remarkable forerunner of James Bond and ‘Q’ combined – and his extraordinary contribution to the British war effort between 1914 and 1918 as an inventor, secret agent and combatant.Frank Brock only lived to be 33. Nonetheless, he did more in that short life than most men could accomplish in several. The hottest fires burn most quickly and here was a man who burned brightly, extinguished in a blaze of glory.The scion of the world-famous Brock Fireworks was killed in action in Belgium during the most daring British raid of WWI, with a cutlass in one hand and a revolver in the other.Picture a daredevil combatant, elite athlete, secret agent and brilliant inventor all rolled into a precocious boy raised in a fireworks family that allowed him to become a pyrotechnical genius. There you have Frank Brock - remarkable combination of James Bond, Thomas Edison, Indiana Jones, and MacGyver. Gunpowder and Glory is the first-ever biography of Brock, an unheralded hero of WWI whose contribution to the war effort saved tens of thousands of lives and helped to end The Great War.Frank could easily have been the template for 007. He was· A heavyweight b

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Author

Harry Smee, Henry Macrory, Lord Ashcroft

Publisher

Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781612008448

Category

nonfiction