The Good Allies

One of The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2024Shortlisted for the 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize“[Cook] takes on arguably his most ambitious topic yet—and succeeds brilliantly… . One of Cook’s many strengths as a military historian is that he equally understands political battlegrounds and the people and tactics involved… . Remarkably detailed—and wise.” —Policy Magazine“Tim Cook[’s] new and acclaimed work of nonfiction… . If you want to hear the riveting true tale of how Canada and the US united in mutual sacrifice and victory for the free world like you’ve never heard it before, make sure you treat yourself to a copy of Tim Cook’s The Good Allies.” —Ottawa Life Magazine“[Tim Cook’s] writing is lucid and … intelligent… . Refreshingly blunt… . The Good Allies will certainly give readers a greater appreciation of the United States’ good fortune in having a healthy, powerful democracy with whom to share the world’s longest international border. And … it reliably documents the great importance World War II had for Canada.” —Open Letters Review

TIM COOK is Chief Historian and Director of Research at the Canadian War Museum. His bestselling books have won multiple awards, including four 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 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. His most recent book, Lifesavers and Body Snatchers, won the 2023 Ottawa Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2022 Templer Medal for Best Book. Cook is a frequent commentator in the media, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Order of Canada.

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