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.
Caroline Elkins is an Assistant Professor of History at Harvard University and the recipient of numerous awards, including a Fulbright and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship. Her research for Britain's Gulag was the subject of the BBC documentary 'Kenya- White Terror', which was shown in Britain in November 2002 and was awarded the International Committee of the Red Cross prize at the Monte Carlo Festival. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"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"
*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"
*London Review of Books*
"This vital study... shocking"
*Sunday Times*
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