Tim Cook

Tim Cook, CM, FRSC, Ph.D.

Canadian War Museum

Tim Cook is the Director of Research at the Canadian War Museum. He was the curator for the First World War permanent gallery at the CWM, and has curated additional temporary, travelling, and digital exhibitions. He is the author of twelve books and over a hundred academic articles and book chapters. In 2012, he was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal for his contributions to Canadian history and in 2013 he received the Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media: The Pierre Berton Award. He is a Director for Canada’s History Society, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a member of the Order of Canada.

Select Publications

• No Place To Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War.  University of British Columbia Press, 1999.
• Clio’s Warriors: Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars.  University of British Columbia Press, 2006.
• At the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1914-1916, vol. 1. Toronto: Viking, 2007.
• Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918, vol. 2. Toronto: Viking, 2008.
• The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie.  Toronto: Allan Lane, 2010.
• Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King and Canada’s Two World Wars.  Toronto: Allan Lane, 2012.
• The Necessary War: Canadians Fighting the Second World War.  Toronto: Allan Lane, 2014.
• Fight to the Finish: Canadians Fighting the Second World War.  Toronto: Allan Lane, 2015.
• [with Jeff Noakes and Nic Clarke] Canada in the World Wars.  London: André Deutsch, 2016.
• Vimy: The Battle and the Legend.  Toronto: Allen, Lane, 2017.
• The Secret History of Soldiers: How Soldiers Survive the Great War. Toronto: Allen Lane, 2018.
• [with J.L. Granatstein] 1919: Canada Remade.  Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020.
• The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada’s Second World War. Penguin, 2020.
• Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War. Penguin Random House Canada, 2022.
• The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War. Penguin Random House Canada, 2025.

Awards

• Pierre Berton Award (Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media), 2013.
• Charles A. Taylor award for Literary Non-Fiction, 2009.
• Ottawa Book award, 2008, 2015, 2018.
• J.W. Dafoe award for literary non-fiction, 2007, 2017.
• C.P. Stacey award for most distinguished book in Canadian military history, 2000, 2014