The Fight for History: Tim Cook

Tim Cook and Peter Mansbridge

The Fight for History: Tim Cook

Tim Cook and Peter Mansbridge

3:00pm

Monday, October 26, 2020

45 mins

Delve into Canadian history with Canadian military historian and Carleton University adjunct research professor Dr. Tim Cook. Cook makes his fourth TIFA appearance this year with his latest book, The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada’s Second World War. Hear what inspired Cook’s research, and enjoy his insightful look at how World War Two has been remembered, forgotten and remade by Canada for over seventy-five years.

Interviewer: Peter Mansbridge 

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Delve into Canadian history with Canadian military historian and Carleton University adjunct research professor Dr. Tim Cook. Cook makes his fourth TIFA appearance this year with his latest book, The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada’s Second World War. Hear what inspired Cook’s research, and enjoy his insightful look at how World War Two has been remembered, forgotten and remade by Canada for over seventy-five years.

Interviewer: Peter Mansbridge 

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Featured Authors

Tim Cook
Tim Cook is an historian at the Canadian War Museum. His 11 books have won many awards, including the J.W. Dafoe Prize for At the Sharp End (2008) and for Vimy: The Battle and the Legend (2018). Shock Troops won the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. In 2013, he received the Pierre Berton Award for popularizing Canadian history. For his contributions to Canadian history, he has been named a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Order of Canada.

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Peter Mansbridge
Peter Mansbridge is an award-winning journalist, a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and a member of numerous boards and committees.   He is best known for his five decades of work at the CBC where he was Chief Correspondent of CBC News and anchor of The National for thirty years. He has won dozens of awards for outstanding journalism, has thirteen honorary doctorates from universities in Canada and the United States, and received Canada’s highest civilian honour, the Order of Canada, in 2008.  

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3:00pm

Monday, October 26

45 mins

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