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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Reprint Edition) by Caroline Elkins Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-8050-8001-5 / 0805080015 ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8001-8 / 9780805080018 Forty years after Kenyan independence from Britain, the words "Mau Mau" still conjure images of crazed savages hacking up hapless white settlers with machetes. The British Colonial Office, struggling to preserve its far-flung empire of dependencies after World War II, spread hysteria about Kenya's M |