Several decades after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and after numerous conspiracy theories, in 1997 the final investigation of Dr. King’s death took place. One of the investigators, Tim Cook, now takes his notes and evidence and compiles them into one fascinating read into discovering the truth once and for all. As the only investigator, police officer, homicide detective to interview James Earl Ray, Cook shares his insight into Ray through the profession...

In 1915, news of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landing and the slaughter at Gallipoli stirred tens of thousands of young men to go to war.They answered the call and formed battalions of the Australian Imperial Force. By the time the new recruits were combat ready, the campaign at Gallipoli had ended. Their battlefields became the muddy paddocks of France and Belgium.Based on eyewitness account, Eyewitnesses at the Somme traces the story of one of these battalions, the 55th, fro...

Electric Touch is a slow-burn gay romance novel set in the world of theatrical design, where light, structure, and emotion collide.Nicky, a precise and guarded electrical engineer, is hired to help restore a historic theater. Aryton, a passionate and free-spirited lighting designer, brings chaos, creativity, and unexpected warmth into his carefully controlled world. What begins as a professional collaboration slowly evolves into something neither of them anticipated—someth...

Joe's life is small, quiet, and painfully ordinary—late shifts at a diner, an empty apartment, and the lingering feeling that nothing important ever really happens to him.Until the night Blake Mercer stumbles into his world bleeding and terrified.Blake is beautiful, secretive, and clearly running from something dangerous. Joe knows he should walk away before trouble follows them both. Instead, he lets Blake stay one night.One night becomes a desperate escape.

From our country's most important war historian, a vital history of the legacy of the Great War and the reverberating impact it has had on Canada since.The Western Front has dominated the culture and memory of the Great War. The lethal power of modern weapons in the form of rapid-firing rifles, scything machine guns, and devastating artillery fire lacerated flesh and shattered bone. Finally, on November 11, 1918, the guns went silent when the beaten German forces s...

‘From Fromelles to the final advance — war as it was lived, in the words of the men who faced it.’One battalion. Three years of war. Ordinary men under relentless pressure.‘I was eighteen when I was first sent into battle at Fromelles… War is both the silliest and cruellest activity that a man can get mixed up in. It breaks my heart even now to think of it.’— Walter Herbert ‘Bert’ Bishop, 55th BattalionIn 1915, news from Gall...

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 ...

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 ...

**Winner of the 2016 Ottawa Book AwardThe magisterial second volume of Tim Cook's definitive account of Canadians fighting in 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 art...

Co-winner of the 2014-2015 Charles P. Stacey AwardTim Cook, Canada’s leading war historian, ventures deep into World War Two in this epic two-volume story of heroism and horror, of loss and longing, 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. It gauges Canadian effectiveness against the skil...

Korea was the first hot war of the Cold War. It was also Canada’s most significant military engagement of the twentieth century following the two world wars. Canada and the Korean War gathers leading scholars to explore the key themes and battles of a seminal yet understudied conflict.Canada had little stake and less interest in Korea before 1950, but the risk the conflict posed to the fragile postwar order was deemed too great for the country to stand on the sidelines. Al...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARDSA 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 ...