Canada's Warlord: Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden's Leadership during the Great War

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  • Dr. Tim Cook Canadian War Museum

Author Biography

Dr. Tim Cook, Canadian War Museum

Tim Cook is the First World War historian at the Canadian War Museum and an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University.   He has published five books, including the two-volume history of Canadians fighting in the Great War, At the Sharp End, which won the 2007 J.W. Dafoe Prize and 2008 Ottawa Book Award, and Shock Troops, which won the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.  His new book, The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie was published by Allan Lane (Penguin Canada) in September 2010.  Tim sits on the editorial board of the journal of Canadian Military History and is a director of Canada’s History Society, which is the publisher of Canada’s History (formerly The Beaver).  Tim is a frequent commentator in the media.

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The Ross Ellis Lecture in Military and Strategic Studies