''Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya'' is a 2005 non-fiction book written by

Caroline Elkins Caroline Elkins (American, born Caroline Fox, 1969) is Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School ...

and published by Henry Holt. It won the 2006

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are awarded annually for the "Letters, Drama, and Music" category. The award is given to a nonfiction book written by an American author and published duri ...

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The book describes how, after Operation Anvil, the British colonial government in

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turned increasingly to mass detention as a means to suppress the Mau Mau Uprising. Elkins details the establishment and running of the detention camps, the torture and abuse that took place there, and the attempts by the British to destroy records on the eve of Kenya's independence, after having covered up such incidents as the Hola massacre. This book was also released under the title ''Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya'', published by Jonathan Cape in 2005.

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''Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya'', Henry Holt/Jonathan Cape, 2005,

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* Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction-winning works 2005 non-fiction books Books about the British Empire History books about Kenya Mau Mau Uprising British Kenya Henry Holt and Company books {{kenya-hist-stub

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