Joanna Bourke

Author of An Intimate History of Killing

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Essential reading, not only for everyone interested in decolonisation, but also for people appalled by human rights abuses today (from Amazon)

A history of the war between the colonial government and the insurrectionist Mau Mau between 1952 and 1960 casts Gikuyu rebels in a more sympathetic light and profiles the British as the conflict's aggressors, in a volume that also discusses the contributions of such figures as Winston Churchill and Harold MacMillan. 13,000 first printing.