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Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism 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 1.5 million and to portray them as sub-human savages. Detainees in their thousands - possibly a hundred thousand or more - died from exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic physical brutality. For decades these events remained untold.

Caroline Elkins conducted years of research to piece together this story, unearthing reams of documents and interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors. Britain's Gulag reveals, for the first time, the full savagery of the Mau Mau war and the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to control its empire.

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"This is the once and continuing dark side we can never escape - or honestly acknowledge...this is where we have been and may stray again" (Peter Preston Observer)

"It is a story which has never before been told...It is a story of unremitting brutality, rape and torture" (Christopher Hudson, Daily Mail)

"The Mau Mau did not get the recognition due to them...and Britain never got the comeuppance it deserved. Half a century later, a 'revisionist' historian like [Niall] Ferguson, seeking to rehabilitate the empire after a decent interval, could still blithely ignore the whole affair. This is no longer an option...Elkins [has] seen to that" (Bernard Porter London Review of Books)

"This vital study... shocking" (Ian Critchley Sunday Times)
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In a controversial but authoritative debut, young Harvard historian Caroline Elkins recounts the waning days of British Empire in Kenya, and the little known destruction of thousands of Kenyans at the hands of the British.

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  • Publication date2014
  • ISBN 10 1847922945
  • ISBN 13 9781847922946
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