On Monday, Nov. 1, 2021, Ted Barris will present a talk based on his award-winning and bestselling book The Great Escape: A Canadian Story to clients of McClelland Financial Group. 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 […]
On Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, Ted Barris presents a talk – in-person – based on his 19th book – Rush to Danger: Medics in the Line of Fire – to the Beachcombers Probus (Wasaga Beach, Ontario). Lost in the Second-World-War story of the Battle of the Bulge lay an account of sacrifice and survival that took […]
Days of Victory now available in paperback. Every year, the children and grandchildren of the generation of Dutch civilians who endured Nazi occupation of their country from 1940 to 1945, celebrated their liberation day – May 4, 1945. Indeed, every May 4 since then, during silent marches in every hamlet and city in the Netherlands, […]
For the second year in a row (because of COVID-19 protocols) Ted Barris addresses the Southwold Remembrance observance via Zoom, on Sunday, Nov. 7. His topic this year is based on his bestselling book Deadlock in Korea, on Canadians' service in the Korean War. Between 1950 and 1953, nearly 30,000 Canadian volunteers joined the effort […]
On Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, Ted Barris will bring his talk based on his award-winning and bestselling book The Great Escape: A Canadian Story to the Bailey Theatre in Camrose, Alberta. At 5 p.m., Ted offers his talk/presentation on the Canadian content of the escape. At 7 p.m. the Bailey screens the original movie. https://tickets.baileytheatre.com/TheatreManager/2/login&event=0 On the […]
Cover of Days of Victory now out in paperback. For the Dutch, the liberation of their occupied homeland by the Allies through 1944-45 proved the most anticipated time of WWII. To mark the 75th anniversary of that hectic and heroic time, acclaimed authors David O’Keefe and Ted Barris return to Festival Place theatre in Sherwood Park, […]
As they have on numerous occasions over the past 10 years, Ted Barris and Terry Fallis appear tonight - at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021 - as part of Blue Heron Books annual Book Drunkard Festival. On this occasion, Barris interviews Fallis on the launch of his new book Operation Angus. In this first […]