TY - BOOK AU - Elkins, Caroline TI - Britain's gulag : : the brutal end of empire in Kenya SN - 9781844135486 AV - DT433.575 .E45 2005 U1 - class no.967.6203ELK. PY - 2005/// CY - London : PB - Pimlico, , Jonathan Cape KW - Detention of persons -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century KW - Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 KW - Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 -- Concentration camps N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -