<div><div><b>“An extraordinary act of historical recovery.”—<i>The New Yorker</i></b></div><div><br>     As 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 government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu—some one and a half million people.<br>     The compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths was the victim of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising. Caroline Elkins spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of survivors of the camps and the British and African loyalists who detained them.<br>     The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya—a pivotal moment in twentieth- century history with chilling parallels to America's own imperial project.<br><br>“Elkins has bravely done justice to history.” —<i>The Nation</i></div><i></i><div><br>“A vivid portrait of daily life behind the wire.” —<i>The Economist</i></div><div><i><br></i>“An important and excruciating record. It will shock even those who think they have assumed the worst about Europe's era of control in Africa.” —<i>The New York Times Book Review<br></i><br></div></div>