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Britain's gulag : the brutal end of empire in Kenya /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2005. Pimlico, Jonathan Cape London : Description: xiv, 475 pages : map, portraits ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781844135486
  • 1844135489
  • 9780224073639
  • 022407363X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • class no.967.6203ELK.
LOC classification:
  • DT433.575 .E45 2005
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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
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Normal Collection Kenya Military Academy DT433.575 .E45 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available KMA004527
Normal Collection Kenya Military Academy DT433.575 .E45 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available KMA004530
Normal Collection Kenya Military Academy DT433.575 .E45 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available KMA004529
Normal Collection National Defence College (NDC) Library DT433.575 .E45 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 6970/08
Normal Collection National Defence College (NDC) Library DT433.575 .E45 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5414/05
Normal Collection National Defence College (NDC) Library DT433.575 .E45 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 7681/09
Normal Collection National Defence College (NDC) Library DT433.575 .E45 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 7682/09
Normal Collection National Defence College (NDC) Library DT433.575 .E45 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5413/05

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

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