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 October 2005, 448 pages, paper

ISBN 039332754X

New in paper (F05)

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.