On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, Ted Barris presents a talk – in-person – based on his 19th book – Rush to Danger: Medics in the Line of Fire – to Probus Cambridge. Lost in the Second-World-War story of the Battle of the Bulge lay an account of sacrifice and survival that took historian Ted Barris nearly […]
On Sunday, May 1, 2022, Ted Barris will help launch the King Township Historical Society's 50th season by bringing his talk based on his award-winning and bestselling book The Great Escape: A Canadian Story to the Laskay Community Hall. On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 360-foot-long tunnel, code-named “Harry.” […]
There's more to Yousuf Karsh's portrait of Churchill than the theft of the great man's cigar. "In the course of my life," Winston Churchill once said, "I have often had to eat my own words, and I must confess I have always found it a wholesome diet." From ambitious subaltern to high-flying minister, Cabinet outcast […]
On Wednesday, May 11, 2022, Ted Barris makes his return to the Probus Club of Trent Hills with a presentation 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 […]
On Friday, May 20, 2022, Ted Barris appears in-person at Cambridge Women's Probus Club with a presentation 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 Barris […]
On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, Ted Barris presents a talk – in-person – based on his 19th book – Rush to Danger: Medics in the Line of Fire – to Probus North York. Lost in the Second-World-War story of the Battle of the Bulge lay an account of sacrifice and survival that took historian Ted Barris […]
On Thursday, May 26, on the eve of the 78th anniversary of D-Day, Ted Barris brings the story of Canada's role in the June 6, 1944 invasion. On that day, nearly 15,000 Canadians — at sea, in the air, and on the ground — joined the long-anticipated D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe on the Normandy beaches. […]