Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire

"A remarkable account of Britain's last stand in Kenya. This is imperial history at its very best."—John Hope Franklin In "a gripping narrative that is all but impossible to put down" (Joseph C. Miller), Histories of the Hanged exposes the long-hidden colonial crimes of the British in Kenya. This groundbreaking work tells how the brutal war between the colonial government and the insurrectionist Mau Mau between 1952 and 1960 dominated the final bloody decade of imperialism in East Africa. U...