Tim Cook (historian)

Tim Cook CM (born 1971, in Kingston) is a Canadian military historian and author.^[1] Cook is the director of research at the Canadian War Museum,^[2] an adjunct research professor at Carleton University,^[1] and the author of several books about the military history of Canada during World War I.^[2] Having written extensively about World War I, Cook's focus shifted to Canada's involvement in World War II with the 2014 publication of the first volume in a two-volume series chronicling Canada's role in that war.^[3]

Background

Cook was born in Kingston, Ontario, and raised in Ottawa. He studied history at Trent University in Peterborough, and later obtained a master's degree at the Royal Military College of Canada and a doctorate at the University of New South Wales.^[4]

Awards

His 2000 book, No Place to Run, was awarded the Charles Stacey award for best book in Canadian military history. At the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1914-1916, won the 2007 J.W. Dafoe award for literary non-fiction and the 2008 Ottawa Book award. His 2008 book Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917–1918 won the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize.^[1] The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie was a finalist for the 2011 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, the 2011 J.W. Dafoe prize, and the 2011 Ottawa Book Award. His 2012 book Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada's World Wars was a finalist for the 2013 Charles A. Taylor award for Literary Non-Fiction and the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award.^[5]

Cook was the recipient of the 2013 Pierre Berton Award (Governor General's History Award for Popular Media), which is awarded by Canada's National History Society. The award was given to Cook for his work making military history "more accessible, vivid and factual", both in his role as an author and as the First World War Historian at the Canadian War Museum.^[6]

Tim Cook was appointed a member of the Order of Canada on December 26, 2014.^[7]

Works

• No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War. UBC Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-7748-4180-1. 

(Winner of the 2000 C.P. Stacey award for most distinguished book in Canadian military history)^[8]

• Clio's Warriors: Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars. UBC Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-7748-4125-2. 
• At the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1914 - 1916. Viking Canada. 2007. ISBN 978-0-670-06734-3. 

(Winner of the 2007 J.W. Dafoe award for literary non-fiction and of the 2008 Ottawa Book award)^[8]

• Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918. Viking Canada. 2008. ISBN 978-0-670-06735-0. 

(Winner of the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction)

• The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars Of Sam Hughes And General Arthur Currie. Penguin Canada. 2010. ISBN 978-0-14-317883-5. 
• Warlords: Borden Mackenzie King And Canada's World Wars. Penguin Canada. 2012. ISBN 978-0-14-318667-0. 
• The Necessary War. Penguin Canada. 2014. ISBN 978-0-14-319304-3. 
• Fight to the Finish: Canadians in the Second World War, 1944-1945. Penguin Canada. 2015. ISBN 978-0-14-319612-9. 

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