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Elkins, Caroline

Britain's gulag : the brutal end of empire in Kenya / - London : Pimlico, Jonathan Cape 2005. - xiv, 475 pages : map, portraits ; 20 cm

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. 3 copy available on shelf no. 4

Also published under title: Imperial reckoning : the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya. New York : Henry Holt, 2005.

1. Pax Britannica --
2. Britain's assault on Mau Mau --
3. Screening --
4. Rehabilitation --
5. The birth of Britain's gulag --
6. The world behind the wire --
7. The hard core --
8. Domestic terror --
9. Outrage, suppression, and silence --
10. Detention exposed --
App. The operating pipeline circa January 1956.

Britain's Gulag:The Brutal End Of Empire in Kenya.It exposes the long suppressed crimes and brutalities that democratic Britain willingly perpetrated upon hundreds of thousands of Africans.
From 1952 until the end of the war in 1960 tens of thousands of detainees - and possibly hundreds of thousands - died from the combined effects of exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic

ISBN: 9781844135486 1844135489 9780224073639 022407363X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Detention of persons -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960.
Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 -- Concentration camps.

LC Class. No.: DT433.575 / .E45 2005

Dewey Class. No.: class no.967.6203ELK.