Britain's gulag : the brutal end of empire in Kenya
"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 and treat them as sub-human savages." "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."--Jacket
History
xiv, 475 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
9780224073639, 022407363X
57006456
Also published under title: Imperial reckoning : the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya. New York : Henry Holt, 2005