Cook arrived in Europe as a young reporter for the New York Herald Tribune during World War II and remained there until he retired as European diplomatic correspondent of The Times in 1988. His byline appeared on stories describing the entry of the allies into Paris, the end of the war in Europe, the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the crises in Berlin, the summits between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, and hundreds of other stories.
He served in London, Bonn and Paris and covered such statesmen of the post-war world as Charles de Gaulle, Konrad Adenauer, Harold Macmillan and Willy Brandt. Many statesmen and diplomats regarded themselves as his personal friends.
Cook was the author of five books, including "The Long Fuse," an account of how the British reacted to the Revolution in their distant American colonies. He approved the page proofs shortly before his death, and Atlantic Monthly Press will publish the book July 4.
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