Tim Cook

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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. He lives in Ottawa with his family.

Shop locally if you can: Books by Tim Cook are available from Perfect Books.

Writers Festival Appearances

Lifesavers and Body Snatchers (2022)
Fighting for Peace (2020)
Day Three (2020)
The Secret History of Soldiers (2018)
Vimy: The Battle and the Legend with Tim Cook (2017)
In Flanders Fields with Tim Cook, Mary Janigan and Roméo Dallaire (2015)
World War Two: Canadian Stories with Mark Zuehlke and Tim Cook (2015)
Book Launch The Necessary War with Tim Cook Presented with Carleton University (2014)
Ottawa Book Awards Non-Fiction Roundtable Tim Cook, Charlotte Gray, Roy MacGregor, Lawrence Martin and Eric Enno Tamm (2011)
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