Mau Mau: The Kenyan Emergency 1952-60

"[An] informative and readable account of the growth of the politically motivated and extremely violent Mau Mau in Kenya." —Military Historical Society

The Second World War forever altered the complexion of the British Empire. From Cyprus to Malaya, from Borneo to Suez, the dominoes began to fall within a decade of peace in Europe. Africa in the late 1940s and 1950s was energized by the grant of independence to India, and the emergence of a credible indigenous intellectual and political...