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Huw Bennett - Fighting the Mau Mau: The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency (Cambridge Military Histories) - 9781107656246 - V9781107656246
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Fighting the Mau Mau: The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency (Cambridge Military Histories)

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Description for Fighting the Mau Mau: The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency (Cambridge Military Histories) Paperback. This new study of Britain's counterinsurgency campaign in Kenya examines the difference between official and accepted methods of conquering insurgents. Series: Cambridge Military Histories. Num Pages: 317 pages, 1 b/w illus. 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 3JJPG; HBJH; HBTV; HBWS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 512. The British Army and Counter-insurgency in the Kenya Emergency. Series: Cambridge Military Histories. 317 pages, 1 b/w illus. 3 maps. This new study of Britain's counterinsurgency campaign in Kenya examines the difference between official and accepted methods of conquering insurgents. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 3JJPG; HBJH; HBTV; HBWS. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 14. Weight: 514.
British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international law, overcoming insurgents with the minimum force necessary. This revealing study questions what this meant for the civilian population during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s, one of Britain's most violent decolonisation wars. For the first time Huw Bennett examines the conduct of soldiers in detail, uncovering the uneasy relationship between notions of minimum force and the colonial tradition of exemplary force where harsh repression was frequently employed as a valid means of quickly crushing rebellion. Although a range of restrained policies such as special ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
317
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Cambridge Military Histories
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107656246
SKU
V9781107656246
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About Huw Bennett
Huw Bennett is a Lecturer in Defence Studies at King's College London, teaching at the British Joint Services Command and Staff College.

Reviews for Fighting the Mau Mau: The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency (Cambridge Military Histories)
'Bennett demolishes the myth that the British army fought against the Mau Mau by trying to win the 'hearts and minds of the people'. He shows in unsurpassed detail the ways in which the army used coercion to cow the civil population into capitulation. This book is indispensable to a proper understanding of what happened in Kenya during the Mau ... Read more

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