Ottawa Historical Association Lecture
The Ottawa Historical Association is pleased to announce that its next regular lecture will be delivered by Tim Cook of the Canadian War Museum on "Supernatural Battlefields: Death Culture and the Canadian Great War Soldier."
This Lecture is FREE and all are welcome. Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 7:30 pm in Room 2017, Dunton Tower, Carleton University, 101 Colonel By Drive. There will be a discussion and refreshments after the talk.
Tim Cook is the First World War historian at the Canadian War Museum and an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University. He has published five books, including the two-volume history of Canadians fighting in the Great War, At the Sharp End, which won the 2007 J.W. Dafoe Prize and 2008 Ottawa Book Award, and Shock Troops, which won the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. His new book, The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie, was published by Allan Lane in September 2010 and was a finalist for several writing awards, including the Shaunessy-Cohen prize for political writing, the J.W Dafoe Prize, and the Ottawa Book Award.
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