Author of The Fight for History
Masterful storyteller and award-winning writer Tim Cook returns to Burlington with his latest release, The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War.
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. (Excerpted from penguinrandomhouse.com)
NEW in 2020 The Fight for History by Tim Cook
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