From tedbarris.com: On Wednesday, March 29, 2023, Ted Barris brings his newest talk/presentation to the North Vancouver Library (Lynn Valley Branch) – in-person. It’s based on his newly released non-fiction book, Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory. For five and a half years, German surface warships and submarines attempted to destroy Allied transatlantic convoys, mostly escorted by Royal Canadian Navy destroyers and corvettes, as well as aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Throwing deadly U-boat ‘wolf packs’ in the paths of Merchant Navy convoys, the German Kriegsmarine nearly strangled this vital life-line to a beleaguered Great Britain. In 1939, Canada’s navy went to war with exactly 13 warships and about 3,500 sailors. During the desperate Atlantic crossings, 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 4th largest navy in the world. The Battle of the Atlantic proved to be Canada’s longest continuous military engagement of the war. The story of Canada’s naval awakening in the bloody battle to get convoys to Britain, is a Canadian wartime saga for the ages.
Date: March 29 Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm North Vancouver Library, Lynn Valley branch, 1277 Lynn Valley Road
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Ted Barris, author of several bestselling Canadian military history books, will speak about his most recent title: Battle of the Atlantic: G
