Title: Clio's warriors :
Authors: Cook, Tim,
Date: 2006
Publisher: UBC Press,
Physical description: ix, 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: F
Abstract: "Clio's Warriors examines how the Canadian world war experience has been constructed and reconstructed over time. Tim Cook elucidates the role of historians in codifying the sacrifice and struggle of a generation as he discusses historical memory and writing, the creation of archives, and the war of reputations that followed each of the world wars."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction : writing the world wars -- Documenting war and forging reputations, 1914-18 -- The war of reputations, 1918-39 -- Clio in the service of Mars, 1939-45 -- History wars and war history, 1945-48 -- Official history, contested memory, 1948-60 -- Forging the canon of Canadian world war history, 1960-2000 -- Conclusion : an ongoing dialogue.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): World War, 1914-1918--Canada--Historiography.; World War, 1939-1945--Canada--Historiography.