On May 8, Ted Barris speaks to the Oshawa Probus Club. With the 75th anniversary of D-Day coming in 2019, Ted will talk about the Canadian role in the invasion. On June 6, 1944, nearly 15,000 Canadians — at sea, in the air, and on the ground — joined the long-anticipated D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe […]
On May 8, Ted Barris makes a return appearance for the Canadian Federation of University Women in Owen Sound. With the 75th anniversary of D-Day coming in 2019, Ted will talk about the Canadian role in the invasion. On June 6, 1944, nearly 15,000 Canadians — at sea, in the air, and on the ground — joined […]
On May 10, Ted Barris will speak to Westway Probus Club about his award-winning and bestselling book 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 […]
On Saturday, May 12, 2018, Ted Barris appears at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ont., to speak about Dam Busters: Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid against Nazi Germany, his latest book published by HarperCollins. It was a night that changed the Second World War. The secret air raid against the hydroelectric dams of […]
On May 16, Ted Barris will speak to the Newmarket Historical Society about his award-winning and bestselling book 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 […]