"We allowed the Americans and the British and even the Germans to write about the war and to present it on film." We didn't produce films or television series," he said. ![]() That didn't happen in Canada following the Japanese and German surrenders in 1945, said Cook. Historian Tim Cook: "History often divides us." (CBC)įollowing the First World War, Canadians built monuments from coast to coast. Canadian soldiers who served in that war - Cosgrave among them - wrote sometimes eloquent and moving accounts of their experiences under fire. "History often divides us."Ĭook - one of the country's leading military historians and authors - said he's baffled by Canadians' apparent reluctance to come to grips with the war's legacy. "It's not easy to talk about our history," Cook told CBC News. One of the book's working titles was "The Deafening Silence." It's reflected in the title of his latest book: The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering and Remaking Canada's Second World War. That act of collective forgetting bothers Cook. ![]() Once the shooting stopped, said historian Tim Cook, war-weary Canadians were eager to forget the war - or at least to move on from it. Few people know, and even fewer appreciate, the somewhat droll role Cosgrove played in that great moment three-quarters of a century ago. The most deadly and destructive conflict in human history - a war that killed at least 75 million people worldwide, claimed 45,000 Canadian lives and left another 55,000 Canadians physically and mentally scarred - was finally over. 2, 1945 Japanese surrender document, displayed aboard the USS Missouri historical site at Pearl Harbor, Oahu.
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