Fighting the Mau Mau
Subtitle: the British Army and counter-insurgency in the Kenya Emergency
By: Huw Bennett
Series: Cambridge military histories; Cambridge military histories
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781107029705; 9781107656246
Subjects: Counterinsurgency; Armed Forces; Military History; Great Britain; Great Britain. Army; Mau Mau; Kikuyu (African people); History
Description: This new study of Britain's counterinsurgency campaign in Kenya examines the difference between official and accepted methods of conquering insurgents.
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Aberystwyth, 2006, titled: British Army counterinsurgency and the use of force in Kenya, 1952-56.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 'A determined campaign against the terrorist bands'; title: 'Harmonious relations' : soldiers, civilians, and committees; title: 'Possibly restrictive to the operations' : marginalising international law in colonial rebellions; title: 'The degree of force necessary' : British traditions in countering colonial rebellions; title: 'Restraint backed by good discipline'; title: 'A dead man cannot talk' : the need for restraint; title: 'A lot of indiscriminate shooting' : military repression before Erskine's arrival; title: 'Severe repressive measures' : the army under Erskine; title: 'An essential part of the campaign' : civil-military alliances.