Desmond Morton

Twenty years ago, the Cold War came to a sudden and unpredicted end. The Berlin Wall, symbol of the post-1945 fracture of Europe between Stalinist tyranny and liberal capitalism, dissolved into chunks of masonry, widely sold, although less as souvenirs of brutal oppression and more as proof of capitalism’s triumph over communism. Previous rebellions in Hungary in…

While the Canadian Voyageurs on the Nile in 1884–85 have been explained at length in books by Colonel C.P. Stacey and by Roy MacLaren, in Mohawks on the Nile: Natives among the Canadian Voyageurs in Egypt, 1884–1885, Carl Benn has focused on the approximately 60 Mohawks in the contingent, confirming their value to the British expedition to save General Gordon and enriching our understanding of Canada’s First Nations in the late 19th…