num_pages: 384
description: This work is the winner of the 1999 Duff Cooper Prize. "A hundred years ago, enlightened people in the western world were outraged by a holocaust in Africa which left millions dead. Denunciations thundered from speaker's platforms around the US and Europe. One open letter to "The Times" was signed by 11 peers, 19 bishops and 75 MPs. Viscount Grey, Britain's foreign secretary, declared that no overseas issue had so intensely aroused the British public for 30 years. Conan Doyle wrote a pamphlet on the Congo atrocities which sold 25,000 copies in the first week alone. Yet today not one person in a thousand could say what the fuss was all about, unless, of course, they have read this amazing book." - Tariq Ali, "Financial Times". "Fascinating ...brilliant and gripping." - "Mail on Sunday". "An exemplary piece of history urgent, vivid and compelling." - "Literary Review". "Brilliant .. this book must be read and re-read." - Neal Ascherson.
language: English
title: King Leopold's Ghost
titlecomplete: King Leopold's Ghost
characters: Roger Casement, Edmund Dene Morel, Henry Morton Stanley, Adam Hochschild, Leopold II of Belgium, George Washington Williams, Tippu Tip
genres: Politics, Historical, Biography, Africa, European History, World History, Race, Nonfiction, History, Belgium
ratings_count: 57181
places: Congo, Congo Free State
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Mark Lynton History Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: California Book Award
category: Nonfiction (Gold), awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Lionel Gelber Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Duff Cooper Prize
publisher: Mariner Books