A bold new telling of the defining battle of the Great War, and how it came to signify and solidify Canada's national identity
TIM COOK is a military historian at the Canadian War Museum, as well as an adjunct professor at Carleton University. His books have won numerous awards, including the 2008 J.W. Dafoe Prize for At the Sharp End and the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction for Shock Troops. In 2013, he received the Pierre Berton Award for popularizing Canadian history and was recently inducted into the Order of Canada. The author lives in Ottawa.
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Winner of the 2018 JW Dafoe Book Prize
Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian
Non-Fiction 2018 Praise for Vimy
"There is no one better equipped to retell the Vimy story than
Cook." --The Chronicle Herald
"Through this book, Cook...cements himself as the nation's premier
military historian."--The Vancouver Sun Praise for At the Sharp
End
"Provides an intimate look at the Canadian men who fought in World
War One....An engrossing, moving experience."--The London Free
Press
Praise for Shock Troops
"Cook has written what will surely be the definitive history of the
Canadian Army in the First World War."--Edmonton Journal
Praise for The Madman and the Butcher
"[A] masterful book."--Maclean's
"In The Madman and the Butcher, [Cook] tells at least two stories
that deserve that overused word "epic.."..An emotive writer....He
has a playwright's ear for knowing when to let his subjects speak
for themselves."--The Globe and Mail
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