Histories of the Hanged

The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire

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by David Anderson

W. W. Norton and Co.

Due/Published January 2005, 320 pages, cloth

ISBN 0393059863

A riveting account of Britain's final bloody decade in Kenya, this book tells the story of the brutal war between the colonial government and the insurrectionist Mau Mau between 1952 and 1960.