On Saturday, May 30, 2020, Ted Barris brings the story of Dutch Liberation in WWII – based on his bestselling book Days of Victory – to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.

Every May 4 since 1945, during silent marches in every hamlet and city in the Netherlands, the Dutch continue to acknowledge the sacrifice that thousands made, in particular, their “liberators,” Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen. More than 7,600 Canadians died in the nine-month campaign to liberate the Netherlands. The Dutch have never forgotten that sacrifice.

Ted’s Days of Victory talk/presentation offers accounts of Canadians’ participation in the liberation of Holland – Operation Market Garden, the Scheldt estuary, taking the German surrender at Wageningen and the famous food drops of Operation Mana in the 1945 “Hunger Winter,” spearheaded by the Royal Canadian Air Force in the final days of the war.

Ted Barris has now published 19 non-fiction books, a dozen of them wartime histories. For 50 years, he has worked as a broadcaster in Canada and the US. He taught journalism at Toronto’s Centennial College for 18 years. His book The Great Escape: A Canadian Story won the 2014 Libris Award for Best Non-fiction Book of the Year. And Dam Busters: Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid against Nazi Germany received the RCAF Association NORAD Trophy in 2018. In early December 2019, it was announced that Ted’s 19th book Rush to Danger was long-listed for the 2020 Charles Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction.