Ken McGoogan and Jonathan Vance
Presented by: University of Toronto Bookstore: Reading Series
Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane tells the story of a daring nineteenth-century explorer who went in search of an Open Polar Sea at the top of the world, hoping to rescue survivors from a lost expedition led by Sir John Franklin.
Lecture and Q&A with historians Ken McGoogan and Jonathan Vance.
Race to the Polar Sea is the fourth and final volume in Ken McGoogan’s Fatal Passage Quartet. You can read all about it in the April-May issue of The Beaver magazine.
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-and coming journalist, and Macalister, one of the finest law students ever to attend the University of Toronto, were both living in France when the Nazis seized power. Pickersgill, arrested as an enemy alien, spent two years in prison before escaping to England.
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Runs: Nov 12, 2008
At: Hart House Library, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto
Playing: Wednesday
Times: 7:30 pm - 9:30pm
Cost: Free
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