Author: REYNOLDS, JOHN LAWRENCE
Title: Leaving Home: The Remarkable Life of Peter Jacyk
Description: Vancouver, Figure 1 Publishing. 2013, 1st Canadian Edition. (ISBN: 9780991858811) Hardcover. Book, "Petro (Peter) Jacyk survived two of the most horrendous events of the twentieth century: the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s, instigated by Stalin and responsible for the deaths of untold millions and waves of invasion and slaughter from Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. Fleeing post-war Europe in 1949, he arrived in Canada with $7 in his pocket and horrific images in his memory. His adopted country would inspire a deep and lifelong love in Jacyk. Here at last, as he put it, he was free to live and free to succeed." Which he did as one of Canada's most successful businesmen.One of the founders of Arka Books he also became a dedicated philanthropist working tirelessly for the preservation of Ukrainian history, language and culture. 287p. + 8 pages of plates.. As New/As New.

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