Part INational Traditions -- 1. Canadian Official Military History: The End of an Era? / S. F. Wise 3 -- 2. Contested Histories: Official History and the South African Military in the Twentieth Century / Ian van der Waag 27 -- 3. 'Something of Them Is Here Recorded': Official History in New Zealand / Ian McGibbon 53 -- 4. Continuity and Change in the Australian Official History Tradition / Peter Edwards 69 -- Part II Aspects of Official Histories of the Second World War -- 5. Change Becomes Continuity: The Start of the U.S. Army's 'Green Book' Series / Edward J. Drea 83 -- 6. Gavin Long and History at the Australian War Memorial / Peter Stanley 105 -- 7. Exploiting Enemy Records: The Enemy Documentation Section and the Official Histories of the Second World War / Jeffrey Grey 117 -- 8. British Official Histories of the Air War / Christina J. M. Goulter 133 -- 9. Setting the Historical Agenda: Webster and Frankland and the Debate over the Strategic Bombing Offensive against Germany, 1939-1945 / Sebastian Cox 147.