Clio's Warriors

Clio's Warriors is a lively and impeccably researched study that confirms how important it is to understand, not just how history is made, but how it is recorded. In writing so persuasively about Canada's foremost military historians of the twentieth century, Tim Cook shows why he is such a worthy successor to their tradition. -- Jonathan Vance, author of Building Canada: People and Projects that Created the Nation and Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War

Acclaimed historian and author Tim Cook (At the Sharp End) analyses where the practice of academic military history has come from and where it needs to go.

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 on the battlefield.

Only recently have academic military historians pushed the discipline to explore the impact of war on society. Even so, the publications of official historians remain the central narrative of the national experience. In analyzing where the profession has come from and where it needs to go, Clio’s Warriors plays a vital role in the ongoing challenge of writing critical history. It will be an essential addition to the library of all Canadian military historians and students of military history and historiography.