Britain fought in the Second World War to save the world from fascism. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of one-and-a half-million - to hold them in camps or confine them in villages ringed with barbed wire - and to portray them as sub-human savages. From 1952 until the end of ...
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Britain fought in the Second World War to save the world from fascism. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of one-and-a half-million - to hold them in camps or confine them in villages ringed with barbed wire - and to portray them as sub-human savages. From 1952 until the end of the war in 1960 tens of thousands of detainees - and possibly a hundred thousand or more - died from the combined effects of exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic physical brutality. Until now these events have remained untold, largely because the British government in Kenya destroyed most of its files. For the last eight years Caroline Elkins has conducted exhaustive research to piece together the story, unearthing reams of documents and interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors. Britain's Gulag reveals what happened inside Kenya's detention camps, as well as the efforts to conceal the truth. Now, for the first time, we can understand the full savagery of the Mau Mau war and the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to control its empire.
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Fine. B-format paperback. 496 p. Audience: General/trade. First edition UK paperback, 2005 Pimlico. It is in fine condition with no creasing to the spine or covers. Illustrated.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; London, UK: Pimlico, 2005. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, 2006. Black and white in-text photographs. Clean, unmarked, gently used book, with just a touch of wear to cover edges. Caroline Elkins researched for eight years what happened in Kenya's detention camps, interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors of the British camps and unearthing documents, to help understand just what went on in Kenya. A few years after the defeat of Hitler in WWI there was an armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. Britain's Gulag reveals what happened inside Kenya's detention camps, as well as the efforts to conceal the truth. Extensive Notes, Bibliography, Index. 475 pages. 8vo. 2005, Pimlico, London, UK. (First published in Great Britain by JonathanCape 2005. This Pimlico Edition 2005.
