Barris, TED

Ted Barris is an accomplished author, journalist and broadcaster. As well as hosting stints on CBC Radio and regular contributions to The Globe and Mail, the National Post, and various national magazines, he is a full-time professor of journalism at Centennial College in Toronto. Barris has authored fifteen non-fiction books, including the national bestsellers Victory at Vimy and Juno.


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The Great Escape

On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 336-foot-long tunnel and slipped into the darkness of a pine forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war compound near Sagan, Poland.The event ...


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Breaking the Silence
"Never talked about it." 

That's what most people say when they're asked if the veteran in the family ever shared wartime experiences.  Describing combat, imprisonment or lost comrades from the World Wars, the Korea War, or even ...

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Behind the Glory
In this 60th anniversary edition is Ted Barris' telling of the unique story of Canada's largest World War II expenditure - $1.75 billion in a Commonwealth-wide training scheme, based in Canada that supplied the Allied air war with nearly a quarter ...

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Deadlock in Korea
Deadlock in Korea is a fascinating, sometimes heart-stopping, look at Canada's forces in a war that history forgot.

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Breaking the Silence
"Never talked about it." 

That's what most people say when they're asked if the veteran in the family ever shared wartime experiences.  Describing combat, imprisonment or lost comrades from the World Wars, the Korea War, or even ...

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Juno
On June 6, 1944, 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. The piece of ground on which the Canadians fought so hard against heavily ...

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Victory at Vimy
From the Author of Juno: Canadians at D-Day, June 6, 1944, comes a new book about the famous Canadian victory at Vimy Ridge.

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Victory at Vimy
From the Author of Juno: Canadians at D-Day, June 6, 1944, comes a new book about the famous Canadian victory at Vimy Ridge.

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Days of Victory
For the sixtieth anniversary of VE Day, Ted Barris retells the wartime stories of many of those Canadians who celebrated on May 8, 1945.

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Juno
On June 6, 1944, 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. The piece of ground on which the Canadians fought so hard against heavily ...

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Showdown provides déjà-vu moment between two Koreas
It’s a pivotal moment. The leader of the Republic of South Korea dispatched a naval patrol up the Taedong River, onto the very doorstep of its longtime arch-enemy. “I feel strongly that now is the most psychological moment when we should take an ...

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Ted Barris Commemorates the 60th Anniversary of the Korean War
“The morning that 90,000 troops of the People's Army of North Korea crossed the 38th Parallel to invade South Korea -- June 25, 1950 -- Don Hibbs was driving the first of his nighttime cab customers across town in Galt, Ont. If he'd turned on his ...

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Review: Breaking the Silence in the Edmonton Journal
Breaking the Silence: Untold Veterans' Stories from the Great War to Afghanistan was recently reviewed in the Edmonton Journal. Breaking the Silence is the latest book from award-winning author Ted Barris. In the book, Barris talks to veterans ...

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Ted Barris on the Terry Johnston Show
Tune in on the morning of Wednesday, November 4th when author Ted Barris will appear live on air on the Terry Johnston Show, where he will discuss his new book, BREAKING THE SILENCE. Ted can be heard on CKDO 107.7 and 1580 AM.

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Ted Barris in Whitby
"Ted Barris, acclaimed military historian and award-winning author of Juno and Victory at Vimy, will share secrets from men and women in uniform who have never publicly spoken of their wartime experiences. Come join Ted as he discusses his new book, ...

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