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TIM COOK is Chief Historian and Director of Research at the Canadian War Museum. His bestselling books have won multiple awards, including three Ottawa Book Awards for Literary Non-Fiction and two C.P. Stacey Awards for the best book in Canadian military history. In 2008 he won the J.W. Dafoe Prize for At the Sharp End and again in 2018 for Vimy- The Battle and the Legend. Shock Troops won the 2009 RBC Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. Cook is a frequent commentator in the media, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Order of Canada.
A Globe and Mail Bestseller It's a reminder, an often grim one, that humans are resilient, capable of enduring the most harrowing of experiences. --The Toronto Star Prof. Cook takes an unprecedented dive into...a rich and little-explored culture that developed among soldiers on the front lines --Hill Times an insightful and readable narrative...At once heartwarming for the reminders of a simpler time and heartbreaking for the unimaginable losses of a century ago...it will breathe added life into all other Great War books. --Esprit de Corps Cook has revealed many of the secrets of the Great War's soldiers' lives. The veil of secrecy has been lifted and every chapter can be read over and over. --The Winnipeg Free Press
