On Wednesday, Sept. 30, Ted Barris will pay return visit to Lifelong Learning Niagara to speak 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 […]
On Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, Ted Barris returns to the Probus Gateway Collingwood to talk about his book – Dam Busters: Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid against Nazi Germany. It was a night that changed the Second World War. The secret air raid against the hydroelectric dams of Germany’s Ruhr River took years to […]
On Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, Ted Barris returns to the RCAF 434 Niagara Wing to present a talk based on his 19th book – Rush to Danger: Medics in the Line of Fire. Lost in the Second-World-War story of the Battle of the Bulge lay an account of sacrifice and survival that took historian Ted […]