in Chatsworth, Grey Highlands, Southgate, West Grey
December 08, 2022
BY SOUTHGREY.CA STAFF — Local Canadian author Ted Barris was the featured speaker at the Grey Highlands Harvest Café on November 8. No stranger to the event, Barris has often brought his fascinating stories of Canada's heroic achievements to Flesherton Kinplex audiences. In fact, he has published nineteen books of non-fiction — half of them wartime histories.
His latest work, Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory documents Canada’s longest continuous military engagement of the Second World War, lasting 2,074 days. The event claimed 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 Battle for the Atlantic was a nation-building milestone and saw Canada come of age on the International stage, growing its fledgeling Navy from a meager delegation into a vital force, tasked with saving Britain from annihilation.
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.
Barris chronicles 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.
It's another important book, expertly written by one of Canada's foremost war historians. Hot off the presses, it is available locally for purchase at Highland Grounds in Flesherton. Pick it up as a thoughtful Christmas gift or as a worthy prep for the Grey County Reads contest to start in January.
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