<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Barris, Ted,]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Barris, Ted,]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/westvanlibrary/rss/search?query=Barris%2C%20Ted%2C&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:29:49 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Victory at Vimy]]></title><link>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C1349371</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C1349371</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barris, Ted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1349371074</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Canada Comes of Age, April 9-12, 1917</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780887622533/MC.GIF&amp;client=westp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking the Silence]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a result of his work on previous books and his unique interview skills, Ted Barris has earned a reputation of trust among Canada's veterans. Here he offers their stories that put a face on the service and sacrifice of men and women who have fought for Canada.]]></description><link>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C1423205</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C1423205</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barris, Ted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1423205074</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Veterans&apos; Untold Stories From the Great War to Afghanistan</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780887624650/MC.GIF&amp;client=westp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Battle of the Atlantic]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Battle of the Atlantic, Canada's longest continuous military engagement of the Second World War, lasted 2,074 days, claiming the lives of more than 4,000 men and women in the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian merchant navy The years 2019 to 2025 mark the eightieth anniversary of the longest battle of the Second World War, the Battle of the Atlantic. It also proved to be the war's most critical and dramatic battle of attrition. For five and a half years, German surface warships and submarines attempted to destroy Allied trans-Atlantic convoys, most of which were escorted by Royal Canadian destroyers and corvettes, as well as aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Throwing deadly U-boat "wolf packs" in the paths of the convoys, the German Kriegsmarine almost succeeded in cutting off this vital lifeline to a beleaguered Great Britain.In 1939, the Royal Canadian Navy went to war with exactly thirteen warships and about 3,500 regular servicemen and reservists. During the desperate days and nights of the Battle of the Atlantic, the RCN grew to 400 fighting ships and over 100,000 men and women in uniform. By V-E Day in 1945, it had become the fourth largest navy in the world.The story of Canada's naval awakening from the dark, bloody winters of 1939-1942, to be "ready, aye, ready" to challenge the U-boats and drive them to defeat, is a Canadian wartime saga for the ages. While Canadians think of the Great War battle of Vimy Ridge as the country's coming of age, it was the Battle of the Atlantic that proved Canada's gauntlet to victory and a nation-building milestone.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]></description><link>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C2229894</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C2229894</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barris, Ted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2229894074</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Gauntlet to Victory</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781443465113/MC.GIF&amp;client=westp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great Escape]]></title><link>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C1639118</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C1639118</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barris, Ted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1639118074</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Canadian Story</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781771022729/MC.GIF&amp;client=westp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Juno]]></title><link>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C1294019</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C1294019</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barris, Ted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1294019074</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Canadians at D-Day, June 6, 1944</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780887621338/MC.GIF&amp;client=westp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the Glory]]></title><link>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C1057467</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C1057467</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barris, Ted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1057467074</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780771591761/MC.GIF&amp;client=westp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Battle of Britain]]></title><description><![CDATA["The gripping and heroic story of fighter pilots defending the skies over Britain from unprecedented Nazi attack. For 113 terrifying days in 1940, Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe, threw everything it had at Great Britain in hopes of early victory in World War II. The task of defending southern England from airborne attack fell to pilots in the Royal Air Force, supplemented in their darkest hour by more than 100 flyers from Canada. These Canadians, some from famous families, some straight off the farm, served in forty-seven different Battle of Britain squadrons. Now, for the first time, bestselling military historian Ted Barris's tells the riveting story of their crucial role in this do-or-die-battle: how they accounted for 130 German aircraft destroyed, another thirty probably destroyed and more than seventy damaged, with twenty pilots dying in action and twelve awarded Distinguished Flying Crosses. The Battle of Britain, And Canada's Gallant Airmen is a must for enthusiasts of military and aviation history."--]]></description><link>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C2305695</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C2305695</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barris, Ted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2305695074</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Canadian Airmen in Their Finest Hour</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781990823947/MC.GIF&amp;client=westp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Battle of Britain]]></title><description><![CDATA[The gripping and heroic story of fighter pilots defending the skies over Britain from unprecedented Nazi attack. For 113 terrifying days in 1940, Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe, threw everything it had at Great Britain in hopes of early victory in World War II. The task of defending southern England from airborne attack fell to pilots in the Royal Air Force, supplemented in their darkest hour by more than 100 flyers from Canada. These Canadians, some from famous families, some straight off the farm, served in forty-seven different Battle of Britain squadrons. Now, for the first time, bestselling military historian Ted Barris's tells the riveting story of their crucial role in this do-or-die-battle: how they accounted for 130 German aircraft destroyed, another thirty probably destroyed and more than seventy damaged, with twenty pilots dying in action and twelve awarded Distinguished Flying Crosses. Battle of Britain: Canadian Airmen in their Finest Hour is a must for enthusiasts of military and aviation history.]]></description><link>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C2309574</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C2309574</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barris, Ted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2309574074</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Canadian Airmen in Their Finest Hour</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781990823930/MC.GIF&amp;client=westp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Battle of the Atlantic]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Battle of the Atlantic, Canada's longest continuous military engagement of the Second World War, lasted 2,074 days, claiming the lives of more than 4,000 men and women in the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian merchant navy The years 2019 to 2025 mark the eightieth anniversary of the longest battle of the Second World War, the Battle of the Atlantic. It also proved to be the war's most critical and dramatic battle of attrition. For five and a half years, German surface warships and submarines attempted to destroy Allied trans-Atlantic convoys, most of which were escorted by Royal Canadian destroyers and corvettes, as well as aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Throwing deadly U-boat "wolf packs" in the paths of the convoys, the German Kriegsmarine almost succeeded in cutting off this vital lifeline to a beleaguered Great Britain. In 1939, the Royal Canadian Navy went to war with exactly thirteen warships and about 3,500 regular servicemen and reservists. During the desperate days and nights of the Battle of the Atlantic, the RCN grew to 400 fighting ships and over 100,000 men and women in uniform. By V-E Day in 1945, it had become the fourth largest navy in the world. The story of Canada's naval awakening from the dark, bloody winters of 1939-1942, to be "ready, aye, ready" to challenge the U-boats and drive them to defeat, is a Canadian wartime saga for the ages. While Canadians think of the Great War battle of Vimy Ridge as the country's coming of age, it was the Battle of the Atlantic that proved Canada's gauntlet to victory and a nation-building milestone.]]></description><link>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C2221513</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C2221513</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barris, Ted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2221513074</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Gauntlet to Victory</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781443460798/MC.GIF&amp;client=westp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rush to Danger]]></title><description><![CDATA["Noted military historian Ted Barris once asked his father, Alex, "What did you do in the war?" What the former US Army medic then told his son forms the thrust of Barris’s latest historic journey—an exploration of his father’s wartime experiences as a medic leading up to the Battle of the Bulge in 1944–45, along with stories of other medics in combat throughout history. Barris’s research reveals that this bloodiest of WWII battles was shouldered largely by military medics. Like his father, Alex, medics in combat evacuated the wounded on foot, scrounged medical supplies where there were seemed to be none, and dodged snipers and booby traps on the most frigid and desolate battlefields of Europe. While retracing his father’s wartime experience, the author weaves into his narrative stories about the life-and-death struggles of military medical personnel during a century of service. In this unique front-line recounting of the experiences of stretcher bearers, medical corpsmen, nurses, surgeons, orderlies, dentists and ambulance drivers, Barris explores the evolution of battlefield medicine at such historic engagements as Fredericksburg, Batoche, the Ypres Salient, the Somme, Vimy, Singapore, Dieppe, Normandy, Falaise, Bastogne, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan. Barris’s sources reveal—like never before—why men and women sporting the red cross on their helmets or sleeves didn’t flee to safety but chose instead to rush to assist."--Amazon.]]></description><link>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C1975131</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C1975131</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barris, Ted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1975131074</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Medics in the Line of Fire</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781443447928/MC.GIF&amp;client=westp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dam Busters]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 an untried bomb and included the best aircrews the RAF Bomber Command could muster—many of them Canadian. The raid marked the first time the Allies successfully took the war inside Nazi Germany. It was a mission that became legendary. On May 16, 1943, nineteen Lancaster bombers filled with 133 airmen took off on a night mission code-named Operation Chastise. Hand-picked and specially trained, the Lancaster crews flew at treetop level to the industrial heartland of the Third Reich and their targets—the Ruhr River dams—whose massive water reservoirs powered Nazi Germany’s military industrial complex. Each Lancaster carried an explosive that, when released just sixty feet over the reservoirs, bounced like a skipping stone to the dam, sank and exploded. The raiders breached two dams and severely damaged a third. The resulting torrent devastated power plants, factories and infrastructure a hundred miles downstream. Every one of the 133 airmen on the mission understood that the odds of survival were low. Of the nineteen bombers outbound, eight did not return. Operation Chastise cost the lives of fifty-three airmen, including fourteen Canadians. Of the sixteen RCAF men who survived, seven received military decorations. Based on personal accounts, flight logs, maps and photographs of the Canadians involved, Dam Busters recounts the dramatic story of these young Commonwealth bomber crews that were tasked with a high-risk mission against an enemy prepared to defend the Fatherland to the death. ]]></description><link>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C1910988</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S74C1910988</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barris, Ted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://westvanlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1910988074</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid Against Nazi Germany</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781443455435/MC.GIF&amp;client=westp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>