Clio's Warriors: Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars Tim Cook University of British Columbia Press 326 pages, hardcover ISBN 0774812567
The novelist E.M. Forster understood the challenge pretty well. "The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave," he wrote of Edward Gibbon in Abinger Harvest. "Otherwise," he warned, "he will move in a world of the dead." Forster was playfully cautioning against the flat and vapid style of ...