From our country's most important war historian, a gripping account of the turbulent relationship between Canada and the US during the Second World War. The two nations entered the war amidst rivalry and mutual suspicion, but learned to fight together before emerging triumphant and bound by an alliance that has lasted to this day.

When the Second World War broke out in 1939, it set in motion a deadly struggle between the Axis powers and the Allies, but also fraught negotiations between and among the Allies. On questions of diplomacy, economic policy, industrial might, military capabilities, and even national sovereignty, thousands of lives and the fate of the free world depended on back-room deals and desperate trade-offs between soldiers, diplomats, and leaders.

In North America, Canada and the US strained to forge a new military alliance to guard their coasts and fend off German U-boats and the menace of a Japanese invasion. Wartime economies were entwined to produce a staggering contribution of weapons to keep Britain and other allies in the war. The defence of North America against enemy threats was essential before the US and Canada could send armies, navies, and air forces overseas.

In his trademark style, Tim Cook employs eyewitness accounts to vividly lay bare the brutality of combat and the courage of North Americans under fire. Behind the fighting fronts, the charged and often secret communications between national leaders Churchill, Roosevelt, and King reveal how their personalities shaped the outcome of history's most destructive war, the fate of the British Empire, and the North American alliance that lives on to this day.

The Good Allies is a masterful account of how Canadians and Americans made the transition from wary rivals to steadfast allies, and how Canada thrived in the shadow of the military and global superpower. In exploring this complex and crucial dimension of the Second World War and its legacy, Cook recounts two nations' story of cooperation, of sacrifice, and of bleeding together to save the world from the fascist threat.

From Canada's top war historian, a definitive medical history of the Great War, illuminating how the carnage of modern battle gave birth to revolutionary--and sometimes shocking--life-saving innovations.

Medical care in almost all armies during the Great War, and especially in the Canadian medical services, was sophisticated and constantly evolving. Vastly more wounded soldiers were saved than lost. Doctors and surgeons prevented disease from decimating armies, confronted ghastly wounds from chemical weapons, remade shattered bodies, and struggled to ease soldiers' battle-haunted minds. After the war, the hard lessons learned by doctors and nurses were brought back to Canada.

But medical advances were not the only thing brought back from Europe: Lifesavers and Body Snatchers exposes the disturbing story of the harvesting of human body parts in medical units behind the lines. Almost 800 individual body parts were removed from the dead and sent to London, England, where they were stored, treated, and presented in exhibition galleries. After being exhibited there, the body parts were displayed in Canada. This uncovered history has never been told before and is part of the hidden legacy of the medical war.

Based on deep archival research and unpublished letters of soldiers and medical personnel, Lifesavers and Body Snatchers is a powerful narrative, told in Tim Cook's classic literary style, which reveals how the medical services supported the soldiers at the front and forged a profound legacy in shaping Canadian public health in the decades that followed.

The First World War was won in the last hundred days.

The Hundred Days campaign ? a series of bitterly fought battles along the Western Front between August and November 1918 ? contributed decisively to ending the war. The Canadian Corps, forever after marked as elite ?shock troops, ? played a key role in the Allied victory.

One hundred years after the end of the war, Tim Cook and J. L. Granatstein delve into this series of battles in a visual and evocative souvenir catalogue. Artworks, artifacts and historical photos are woven together with the powerful stories of Canadians who participated in this costly combat.

WINNER OF THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARD

An unforgettable chronicle of Canadians fighting the Second World War.

Historian Tim Cook displays his trademark storytelling ability in the second volume of his masterful account of Canadians in World War II. Cook combines an extraordinary grasp of military strategy with a deep empathy for the soldiers on the ground, at sea, and in the air. Whether it's a minute-by-minute account of a gruelling artillery battle, vicious infighting among generals, the scene inside a medical unit, or the small details of a soldier's daily life, Cook creates an utterly compelling narrative. He recounts in mesmerizing detail how the Canadian forces figured in the Allied bombing of Germany, the D-Day landing at Juno beach, the taking of Caen, and the drive south.

Featuring dozens of black-and-white photographs and moving excerpts from letters and diaries of servicemen, Fight to the Finish, along with its companion volume, The Necessary War, broadens our understanding of the Second World War with a gripping account of Canadians who fought abroad, and the home front that was changed forever.

A bold new telling of the defining battle of the Great War, and how it came to signify and solidify Canada's national identity.

Why does Vimy loom so large in Canada's identity--and should it? Tim Cook, Canada's foremost military historian and a RBC Taylor Prize winner, examines the battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 and the way the memory of it has evolved over a hundred years. Vimy is unlike any other battle in Canadian history: it has been described as the birth of the nation. But the meaning of that phrase has never been explored, nor has any writer explained why the battle continues to resonate with Canadians. The Vimy battle that began April 9, 1917, marked the first time the four divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force fought together. 10,600 men were killed or injured over four days--twice the casualty rate of the Dieppe Raid in August 1942.

Cook has uncovered new material and photographs from official archives and private collections across Canada and from around the world. Many of these resources have never been used before by other historians, writers, or filmmakers.

This book is about more than a defining battle: it is a story of Canadian identity and memory, by a writer who brings history alive.

The Second World War was a global war. But its effects were felt by every Canadian.

From the parachutist penning one last letter before being dropped into danger, to the ?bomb girl? who was burned on the job. From the prisoner of war who turned to art to endure the misery, to the Japanese Canadian teenager made to move 600 kilometres from home. Although the Second World War was unprecedented in both scope and scale, it was individuals that experienced it in all its brutality and glory.

To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the Canadian War Museum has developed this souvenir catalogue. Personal photographs, letters and artifacts bring the stories of 26 Canadians to life. Forever Changed ? Stories from the Second World War uses eye-witness accounts to explore the human side of war for those in Canada and around the world.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years.

The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada increasingly turned toward the United States in matters of trade, security, and popular culture, which then sparked a desire to strengthen Canadian nationalism from the threat of American hegemony.

The Fight for History examines how Canadians framed and reframed the war experience over time. Just as the importance of the battle of Vimy Ridge to Canadians rose, fell, and rose again over a 100-year period, the meaning of Canada's Second World War followed a similar pattern. But the Second World War's relevance to Canada led to conflict between veterans and others in society--more so than in the previous war--as well as a more rapid diminishment of its significance.

The Fight for History is about the efforts to restore a more balanced portrait of Canada's contribution in the global conflict. This is the story of how Canada has talked about the war in the past, how we tried to bury it, and how it was restored. This is the history of a constellation of changing ideas, with many historical twists and turns, and a series of fascinating actors and events.

There have been thousands of books on the Great War, but most have focused on commanders, battles, strategy, and tactics. Less attention has been paid to the daily lives of the combatants, how they endured the unimaginable conditions of industrial warfare: the rain of shells, bullets, and chemical agents. In The Secret History of Soldiers, Tim Cook, Canada's foremost military historian, examines how those who survived trench warfare on the Western Front found entertainment, solace, relief, and distraction from the relentless slaughter.

Mined from the letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral accounts of more than five hundred combatants, rare examples of trench art, postcards, and even song sheets offer insight into a hidden society that was often irreverent, raunchy, and anti-authoritarian. While novels and poetry often depict the soldiers of the Great War as mere victims, this new history shows how the soldiers pushed back against the grim war, refusing to be broken in the mincing machine of the Western Front.

The fighting at the front was devastating, but behind the battle lines, another layer of life existed, one that included songs, skits, art, and soldier-produced newspapers. Over the years, both writers and historians have overlooked this aspect of the men's lives, but Cook reveals the gallows humour the soldiers employed to endure the trenches.

With his trademark narrative abilities and an unerring eye for the telling human detail, Cook has created another landmark history of Canadian military life as he reveals the secrets of how soldiers survived the carnage of the Western Front.

CO-WINNER OF THE C.P. STACEY AWARD

The definitive account of Canadians fighting in the Second World War written by Canada's premier military historian.

Tim Cook, Canada's leading war historian, ventures deep into the Second World War in this epic two-volume story of heroism and horror, loss and longing, and sacrifice and endurance.

Written in Cook's compelling narrative style, this book shows in impressive detail how soldiers, airmen, and sailors fought--the evolving tactics, weapons of war, logistics, and technology. He also examines the war as an engine of transformation for Canada. With a population of fewer than twelve million, Canada embraced its role as an arsenal of democracy, exporting war supplies, feeding its allies, and raising a million-strong armed forces that served and fought in nearly every theatre of war. The six-year-long exertion caused disruption, provoked nationwide industrialization, ushered in changes to gender roles, exacerbated the tension between English and French, and forged a new sense of Canadian identity. It showed that Canadians were willing to bear almost any burden and to pay the ultimate price in the pursuit of victory.

In the 1970s the vagrant alcoholic was not a new problem, and for the previous two hundred years people had asked: What can be done to help them? Why not lock them up? Why don't they get jobs? Tim Cook had worked for many years with homeless men and in this book, originally published in 1975, he describes the problems of vagrant alcoholics and the way in which one voluntary organization, the Alcoholics Recovery Project, based in South London, responded to these problems.

The response had in essence been one of experimentation beginning with the first hostel in 1966, the development of non-residential shop fronts in 1970, and the employment of a team of recovered alcoholics in 1974. The Project sought to break down the mistrust surrounding the problem on all sides and to rediscover the potential of the so-called 'hopeless' skid row alcoholic. Tim Cook places the Project's work in the wider context of social work and social responsibility, and shows that its methods had relevance for other agencies. He also examines the persistent failure of successive governments to take any positive action to tackle the problems of vagrant alcoholics.

Throughout the book the views of the alcoholics themselves are integrated with the attitudes and experiences of the Project workers. The author offers an assessment of the Project's work, and an outline of its limitations, stressing that no easy answer exists to this problem. But, he believed, the Project had made valuable progress towards a greater understanding of the vagrant alcoholic and his milieu.

Clio's Warriors examines how the Canadian world war experience has been constructed and reconstructed over time. Tim Cook elucidates the role of historians in codifying the sacrifice and struggle of a generation as he discusses historical memory and writing, the creation of archives, and the war of reputations that followed each of the world wars on the battlefield. Only recently have military historians pushed the discipline to explore the impact of war on society. In analyzing where the practice of academic military history has come from and where it needs to go, Clio's Warriors plays a vital role in the ongoing challenge of writing critical history.

Le monde entier a ?t? touch? par la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Au Canada, l?ensemble de la population en a ressenti les effets.

Du parachutiste ?crivant une derni?re lettre avant de se lancer dans le vide ? la ? bomb girl ? se surmenant ? l?usine; du prisonnier de guerre se tournant vers l?art pour r?ussir ? endurer la mis?re ambiante ? l?adolescent, d?origine japonaise, qu?on a forc? ? se d?placer ? 600 km de chez lui? Bien que la Seconde Guerre mondiale ait ?t? d?une port?e et d?une ampleur in?gal?es, c?est aussi ? l chelle humaine qu?elle a ?t? v?cue, dans toute sa gloire et sa brutalit?.

Afin de souligner le 75e anniversaire de la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le Mus?e canadien de la guerre a produit ce catalogue-souvenir qui, par le biais de photographies, de lettres et d?art?facts, fait revivre les r?cits de 26 Canadiennes et Canadiens. Des vies transform?es ? R?cits de la Seconde Guerre mondiale offre d?explorer comment la guerre a ?t? v?cue, d?un point de vue humain et personnel, au Canada et dans le monde.

Les sacrifices et la contribution du Canada lors de la guerre sud-africaine et de la Premi?re Guerre mondiale a certes suscit? un fort sentiment national et favoris? une reconnaissance internationale, mais ? quels co?ts? La guerre sud-africaine a ?t? une exp?dition militaire de relativement petite envergure qui a tout de m?me influenc? la d?cision cruciale d?envoyer des troupes canadiennes pour soutenir les alli's outre-mer. Au cours de la Premi?re Guerre mondiale, les Canadiens ont combattu aussi bien au sol, dans les airs qu?en mer dans certaines des batailles les plus connues et les plus couteuses de l?histoire: deuxi?me bataille d?Ypres, la Somme, la cr?te de Vimy, Passchendaele et la campagne des Cent Jours. Plus de 620 000 Canadiens ont servi. Sur le front int?rieur, des femmes sont entr?es sur le march? du travail, des organisations patriotiques ont soutenu les soldats outre-mer et l?instauration de la conscription a s?v?rement menac? l?unit? canadienne. Ce catalogue-souvenir explore, au moyen d?artefacts, d?images, d?affiches et de pi?ces d?art, les multiples fa?ons par lesquelles ces deux guerres outre-mer ont chang? le Canada ? tout jamais.

L?issue de la Premi?re Guerre mondiale s?est d?cid?e au cours des cent derniers jours.

La campagne des Cent Jours, qui consiste en une succession de batailles ?prement disput?es sur le front de l?Ouest entre les mois d?ao't et de novembre 1918, a contribu? de fa?on d?cisive ? la fin de la Premi?re Guerre mondiale. Consid?r's depuis lors comme des ? troupes de choc ? d lite, les membres du Corps canadien ont jou? un r?le cl? dans la victoire des Alli?s.

? l?occasion du centenaire de la fin de la guerre, Tim Cook et J. L. Granatstein explorent la s?rie de batailles que regroupe cette campagne dans un catalogue-souvenir visuel et ?vocateur r?unissant des ?uvres d?art, des artefacts, des photos historiques et des r?cits poignants de militaires canadiens qui ont pris part aux affrontements extr?mement co?teux en vies humaines.