Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction

“Caroline Elkins has written an important book that can change our understanding not just of Africa but of ourselves. —Bill Berkeley, author of The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa

A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya.

As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But ...