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Barris Great Escape featured at Granite Club

May 21, 2015 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

GREAT_ESCAPE_FRONT_STICKER_PRINTABLETed Barris will be the featured in the Granite Club’s new Speakers Series event on Thursday, May 21, 2015. He will speak about and show illustrations from latest book is The Great Escape: A Canadian Story. On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 360-foot-long tunnel, code-named “Harry.” Most slipped into the darkness of a pine forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a German POW compound near Sagan, Poland. The event became known as “The Great Escape.” What audiences who’ve seen/heard Ted Barris present this story have learned is that “The Great Escape” was in many ways “made in Canada.” Based on his original interviews, research and assembly of memoirs, letters, diaries and personal photos, Barris reveals that many of the escape’s key players were Canadians. His now National Bestselling book and his presentation come across like a Hollywood movie script, but they are in fact the true story!

LIBRIS2014Ted Barris is an author, journalist and broadcaster. As well as hosting appearances on CBC Radio and regular contributions to the National Post and Legion, Air Force and Zoomer magazine, he is a full-time professor of journalism and broadcasting at Centennial College in Toronto. He has authored 17 published, non-fiction books.

In 2011 he received the Canadian Minister of Veterans’ Affairs Commendation and in 2012 the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Last spring, The Great Escape: A Canadian Story received the 2014 Libris Best Non-Fiction Book Award.

Details

Date:
May 21, 2015
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Organizer

Carolyn Weaver
Phone
416-486-2059
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Venue

Granite Club
2350 Bayview Ave.
North York, Ontario M2L 1E4 Canada
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Phone
416-449-8713
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