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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
Category: Popular History
A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in KenyaAs part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial gove ...Show more
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
Category: History
**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022**'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindA searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and cl ...Show more
Legacy of Violence - A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
Category: History
**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022** 'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the Mind A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass ...Show more
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (HB) by Caroline Elkins
Category: History
'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindAsearing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bareits pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain' ...Show more
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