On Tuesday, March 8, 2022, Ted Barris brings a talk/presentation based on his bestselling book Dam Busters: Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid against Nazi Germany to the Streetsville Probus. 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 plan, involved […]
On Wednesday, March 9, 2022, Ted Barris brings - via Zoom - the story of Dutch Liberation in WWII – based on his bestselling book Days of Victory – to the University of Toronto Lecture Series. Every May 4 since 1945, during silent marches in every hamlet and city in the Netherlands, the Dutch continue […]
On Thursday, March 24, 2022, Ted Barris brings his talk/presentation based on his award-winning and bestselling book The Great Escape: The Untold Story to the Kiwanis Club of Huntsville Muskoka - via ZOOM. 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 […]