Marching as to War

Is Canada a warrior nation or a peaceable kingdom?

Few authors are better qualified than Tim Cook to answer a question that has become a part of the national discourse ever since the current government was first elected in 2006.

An internationally acclaimed, award-winning historian at the Canadian War Museum, Cook is one of Canada’s best at integrating the academic expertise of the traditional researcher with the literary flare of the successful novelist. This rare combination allows him to bring a level of reason to what has become an emotional, and unfortunately confrontational, public debate.

He does so, however inadvertently, in Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King and Canada’s World Wars, a study that demonstrates that one need not be a natural...