Unlikely Soldiers How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against

Name: Unlikely Soldiers How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against
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ISBN: 9780002007351

ISBN-10: 0002007355

ISBN-13: 9780002007351

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jonathan Vance

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When Nazi Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated in 1945, its records revealed that two young Canadians, Ken Macalister and Frank Pickersgill, were among its countless victims. At 30 and 31 years of age, they had been agents of Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE ), an undercover unit established by Winston Churchill that used sabotage and subversion to bring down the Nazi regime from within. Jonathan F. Vance brings us the dramatic, untold story of two men who were the most unlikely of soldiers. Pickersgill, an up-andcoming journalist, and Macalister, one of the finest law students ever to attend the University of Toronto, were both living in France when the Nazis…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/20/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.31" wide x 9.38" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Jonathan F. Vance teaches history at Western University. He is the author of many works, including Maple Leaf Empire: Canada, Britain and Two World Wars (2011).