Britains Gulag - Caroline Elkins
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Britains Gulag – Caroline Elkins

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The twentieth anniversary edition of Caroline Elkins’s Pulitzer Prize‑winning exposé, now with a new introduction.

After decades of British rule in Kenya, 1952 saw the start of the Mau Mau uprising – 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. 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. A groundbreaking account of Kenya’s fight for independence and its violent suppression, *Britain’s Gulag* details the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to uphold its empire.

**Awards**
– Pulitzer Prize (for the original work)

**Reviews**
“An extraordinary act of historical recovery” – *The New Yorker*
“Disturbing and horrifying…important and memorable” – Caroline Moorehead

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Format: Paperback / softback 496 pages
Classifications: Kenya, British Empire, 20th century, African history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000

ISBN : 9781529946185

Published : 6 Mar 2025

Author : Caroline Elkins

Publisher : Vintage Publishing

Size : 199 x 132 x 34 (mm)

Weight : 346g

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