Like many readers, I have been following the discussion resulting from the findings of the Aboriginal Peoples’ Television Network (APTN) that literary superstar Joseph Boyden has no verifiable indigenous ancestry. Any person whose ancestors have lived here for a century or more likely has at least some aboriginal blood. Of course all human blood is […]
Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
By Catherine Merridale, 2006 Around half a million Allied military personnel died in World War Two. These Allied personnel had the advantage—or disadvantage in some senses—of dying far from home. The corresponding number of Soviet deaths was about eight and a half million, and much of the war was fought on home ground. Many of […]