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Hard to put down.... The author has done an excellent job of research on the subject....read this book - you won't be disappointed.

'hard to put down. The author has done an excellent job of research on the subject. The history of Stanley and Pye may not be familiar to many of us, so I urge you to read this book - you won't be disappointed.' -- Alan Smith-Gode HRSA Radio Waves 'Any Practical Wireless reader, even with the slightest interest in the history of radio and broadcast technology, Second World War communications, radar and television should read Radio Man. I could not put the book down, it's a superb radio-based real life drama!' Practical Wireless 'the reader gains a detailed insight into one of the most significant industrial empires of the 20th Century and of C.O. Stanley who made it all happen - a fascinating glimpse of a truly wonderful man.' -- Dr. David Ellis Measurement + Control 'a fascinating story about the transience of commercial and personal success, the complexity of the factors that produce it, and the difficulty of sustaining it in changing circumstances.' -- Jock Given Prometheus

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Mark Frankland read history at Cambridge and at Brown University, USA. He was a foreign correspondent for The Observer, working in the Soviet Union, the Far East, Europe and the United States. He twice won the British Press Awards prize for foreign reporting. His most recent book, Child of My Time (Chatto & Windus, 1999), won the J.R. Ackerley Prize for autobiography. His account of the collapse of communism in east Europe, The Patriots' Revolution (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990), was shortlisted for the NCR award. He is the author of five other books, including Khrushchev (Penguin Books, 1966) and The Sixth Continent (Hamish Hamilton, 1986), a study of Russia under Mikhail Gorbachev. Gordon Bussey is the Historical Adviser to Philips Electronics UK Ltd. and a Trustee of the Marconi Collection. He was a contributor and former referee to the London School of Economics Dictionary of Business Biography. He is the author of numerous publications on wirelessrelated subjects including Marconi's Atlantic Leap, published in 2001. He has also given extensive historical and technical advice to the producers of the BAFTA award-winning website, www.marconicalling.com. In 2000 he was the historical consultant to the Royal Mint during the preparation of their legal tender £2 coin issued in 2001 commemorating Marconi's transatlantic centenary and he also provided the edge inscription for the coin. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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