{"product_id":"britains-gulag-9781529946185","title":"Britains Gulag","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe twentieth anniversary edition of Caroline Elkins's Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé, now with a new introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter decades of British rule in Kenya, 1952 saw the start of the Mau Mau uprising  a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain''s colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of 1.5 million. Detainees in their thousands  possibly a hundred thousand or more  died from exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic physical brutality. For decades these events remained untold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaroline Elkins conducted years of research to piece together this story, unearthing reams of documents and interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors. A groundbreaking account of Kenya's fight for independence and its violent suppression, \u003ci\u003eBritain''s Gulag\u003c\/i\u003e details the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to uphold its empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''An extraordinary act of historical recovery'' \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Disturbing and horrifying...important and memorable'' Caroline Moorehead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515892142423,"sku":"9781529946185","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781529946185.jpg?v=1745428169","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/britains-gulag-9781529946185","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}