{"product_id":"britains-gulag-the-brutal-end-of-empire-in-kenya-9781844135486","title":"Britain's Gulag : The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the rear cover of this 475 page book: \"Britain fought in the Second World War to save the world from fascism. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britains colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of one-and-a-half-million - to hold them in camps or confine them in villages ringed with barbed wire - and to portray them as sub-human savages. From 1952 until the end of the war in 1960 tens of thousands of detainees - and possibly a hundred thousand or more - died from the combined effects of exhaustion  disease  starvation and systematic physical brutality. Until now these events have remained untold  largely because the British government in Kenya destroyed most of its files. For the last eight years Caroline Elkins has conducted exhaustive research to piece together the story  unearthing reams of documents and interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors. This book reveals what happened inside Kenyas detention camps  as well as the efforts to conceal the truth. Now  for the first time  we can understand the full savagery of the Mau Mau war and the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to control its empire.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652937670709,"sku":"ByrdShop_1844135489","price":288.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781844135486.jpg?v=1781853682","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/britains-gulag-the-brutal-end-of-empire-in-kenya-9781844135486","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}