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Barris brings D-Day story to Oshawa Probus
Barris brings D-Day story to Oshawa Probus
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 […]
Barris returns to CFUW Owen Sound with D-Day story
Barris returns to CFUW Owen Sound with D-Day story
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 […]
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Barris bring Great Escape to Westway Probus
Barris bring Great Escape to Westway Probus
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 […]
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Warplane Heritage Museum welcomes Barris’s Dam Buster presentation
Warplane Heritage Museum welcomes Barris’s Dam Buster presentation
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 […]
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Great Escape story for Newmarket Historical Society
Great Escape story for Newmarket Historical Society
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 […]