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| Author | Caroline Elkins |
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| Publisher | Henry Holt |
Publication date | 2005 |
| ISBN | 0-8050-8001-5 |
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, published in theUK asBritain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya, is a 2005 nonfiction book written byCaroline Elkins and published byHenry Holt. It won the 2006Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.[1]
The book describes how, afterOperation Anvil, theBritish colonial government inKenya turned increasingly tomass detention as a means to suppress theMau Mau Uprising. Elkins details the establishment and running of the detention camps, the torture and abuse that took place there, and the attempts by the British to destroy records on the eve of Kenya's independence, after having covered up such incidents as theHola massacre.[2]
This book was also released under the titleBritain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya, published byJonathan Cape in 2005.[3][4][5]
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, Henry Holt/Jonathan Cape, 2005,ISBN 0-8050-8001-5
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