The Sorrow and the Pity: The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume III: The Stolen Generations, 1881–2008, by Keith Windschuttle; Macleay Press, 2009, 656 pages, $59.95.

In 1969 a two-part documentary cut French society to the quick. The Sorrow and the Pity presented interviews with former collaborators and Resistance fighters in occupied France during the Second World War. For the first time in twenty-five years, the French had publicly to face the fact that their collective behaviour during that period had been less than creditable.