On Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, Ted Barris speaks to the North London Probus Club with his newest talk / presentation. It’s based on his latest non-fiction book, Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory. In the 20th century’s greatest war, one battlefield held the key to victory or defeat – the North Atlantic. It took […]
On Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, Ted Barris speaks to Collingwood Probus 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 nearly a lifetime […]
On Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023, Ted Barris brings his talk/presentation based on his award-winning and bestselling book The Great Escape: The Untold Story to the Keystone Complex in Shedden, Ontario. 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 […]
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, the Dutch continue to acknowledge the sacrifice […]
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, the Dutch continue to acknowledge the sacrifice […]
On Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, Ted Barris speaks to the Caledon Women's Probus Club with his newest talk / presentation. It’s based on his latest non-fiction book, Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory. In the 20th century’s greatest war, one battlefield held the key to victory or defeat – the North Atlantic. It took […]
On Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, Ted Barris returns to the Canadian Club of London with his newest talk / presentation. It’s based on his latest non-fiction book, Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory. In the 20th century’s greatest war, one battlefield held the key to victory or defeat – the North Atlantic. It took […]
On Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, Ted Barris speaks to the Applewood Probus Club with his newest talk / presentation. It’s based on his latest non-fiction book, Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory. In the 20th century’s greatest war, one battlefield held the key to victory or defeat – the North Atlantic. It took 2,074 […]
On Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, Ted Barris speaks to the Probus Club of Oshawa and presents his newest talk / presentation. It’s based on his latest non-fiction book, Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory. In the 20th century’s greatest war, one battlefield held the key to victory or defeat – the North Atlantic. It […]
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, the Dutch continue to acknowledge the sacrifice […]
Each year in November the Askennonia Centre in Midland, Ontario, hosts a luncheon in honour of veterans in the community. For most of the past decade, Ted Barris has brought the keynote presentation. This year, on Friday, Nov. 17, novelist Malcolm Kelly joins him as the two bring stories of the British Commonwealth Air Training […]
On Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, Ted Barris brings a talk/presentation based on his bestselling book Dam Busters: Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid against Nazi Germany to Bowmanville's "Brotherhood Night." 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, Nov. 18, 2023, Ted Barris speaks to the Aircrew Association and presents his newest talk / presentation. It’s based on his latest non-fiction book, Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory. In the 20th century’s greatest war, one battlefield held the key to victory or defeat – the North Atlantic. It took 2,074 […]
On Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023, Ted Barris speaks to Fenelon Falls Probus about his newest talk / presentation. It’s based on his latest non-fiction book, Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory. In the 20th century’s greatest war, one battlefield held the key to victory or defeat – the North Atlantic. It took 2,074 days […]