Books written by Tim Cook

The Necessary War, Volume 1

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The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War

Rabbi A.C. Feinberg, writing in the Toronto Star, warned that the war against fascism might have been won, but if murderers like Meyer still lived, the fight was not over.21 Macdonald and the prosecuting team were shattered by Vokes's ...
Fight to the Finish: Canadians in the Second World War, 1944-1945

Led by thirtyfouryearold Colonel Kurt Meyer's 25th Panzer Grenadier Regiment, a threebattalion formation of mechanized infantry, they arrived in Caen early on June 7. From the outskirts of Caen, atop an observation tower at the Abbaye ...
Eyewitnesses at the Somme: A Muddy and Bloody Campaign, 1916–1918

In 1915, news of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landing and the slaughter at Gallipoli stirred tens of thousands of young men to go to war.They answered the...
Snowy to the Somme: A Muddy and Bloody Campaign, 1916-1918

In 1915, news of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landing and the slaughter at Gallipoli stirred tens of thousands of young men to go to war. They answered...
No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War

Historians of the First World War have often dismissed the important role of poison gas in the battles of the Western Front. Tim Cook shows that the serious threat of...
At the Sharp End Volume One: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1914-1916

Militia Director of Artillery Edward W.B. Morrison, a South African War veteran and editor of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, had been appointed commander of the artillery. Having won a gallantry award in South Africa, “Dinky” Morrison—at ...
Vimy: The Battle and the Legend

The top gunner in the Canadian Corps—the general officer commanding, Royal Artillery (GOC RA)—was Brigadier Edward “Dinky” Morrison, a South African War veteran who had cut his teeth on 12-pounders on the veldt.
Shock Troops

Follows the Canadian fighting forces during the titanic battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, and the Hundred Days campaign.
Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918

"The first comprehensive history of Canadians in WWI in forty years, and already hailed as the definitive work on Canadians in the Great War, At the Sharp End covers the...
Clio's Warriors: Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars

Clio's Warriors examines how the Canadian world war experience has been constructed and reconstructed over time.
At the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1914-1916

"The first comprehensive history of Canadians in WWI in forty years, and already hailed as the definitive work on Canadians in the Great War, At the Sharp End covers the...
At the Sharp End Volume One: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1914-1916

The first comprehensive history of Canadians in WWI in forty years, and already hailed as the definitive work on Canadians in the Great War, At the Sharp End covers the harrowing early battles of 1914-16.
Last Undread Days

One hundred years after the end of the war, Tim Cook and Jack Granatstein delve into this series of battles in a visual and evocative souvenir catalogue that weaves artworks, artifacts and historical photos together with the powerful ...
Canada 1919: A Nation Shaped by War

Notes 1 David Jay Bercuson, Confrontation at Winnipeg: Labour, Industrial Relations, and the General Strike (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974). 2 Quoted in Jim Blanchard, Winnipeg's Great War: A City Comes of ...
The Secret History of Soldiers: How Canadians Survived the Great War

In The Secret History of Soldiers, Tim Cook, Canada's foremost military historian, examines how those who survived trench warfare on the Western Front found entertainment, solace, relief, and distraction from the relentless slaughter.
The Secret History of Soldiers: How Canadians Survived the Great War

These tales come from the soldiers themselves, mined from the letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral accounts of more than five hundred combatants.
The Necessary War: Canadians Fighting the Second World War, 1939-1943

v. 1. Canadians fighting the Second World War, 1939-1943-- v. 2. Fight to the finish: Canadians in the Second World War, 1944-1945.
Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War

*WINNER OF THE 2023 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 TEMPLER MEDAL FOR BEST BOOK* From Canada’s top war historian, a definitive medical history of the Great War, illuminating how the carnage of modern battle gave birth to ...
For Crown and Country: The South African and First World Wars

Canada's sacrifices and contributions to the South African and First World Wars led to an increased sense of nationhood and to international recognition, but at great cost.