The twentieth anniversary of Caroline Elkins' Pulitzer Prize-winning exposition, now with a new introduction.

After decades of British rule in Kenya, the Mau Mau uprising began in 1952 - a massive armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The harsh response of Britain's colonial government was to imprison nearly the entire Kikuyu population, numbering 1.5 million. Thousands of detainees – likely over a hundred thousand – died from exhaustion, disease, starvation, and systemic physical violence. For decades these events remained unexplained.

Caroline Elkins conducted years of research to compose this account, uncovering piles of documents and interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors. An innovative chronicle of Kenya's struggle for independence and its violent suppression, Britain's Gulag describes the relentless determination with which Britain sought to maintain its empire.

'An extraordinary piece of historical recovery' - New Yorker

'Disturbing and frightening... important and unforgettable' - Caroline Moorehead

Pages: 496, Dimensions: 13x13cm