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Freedom and After is a testament to Tom Mboya's outstanding contribution to the shaping of independent Kenya and his dee...
Freedom and After is a testament to Tom Mboya's outstanding contribution to the shaping of independent Kenya and his deep commitment to the future of Africa. It is a major work in the history of Africa and one of the most powerful and wide ranging books to be written by an African political leader. Author: Tom Mboya ISBN:9789966469748
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"To most people, Dedan Kimathi, the man who led the Mau Mau movement in Kenya’s forests in the 1950s to win freedom from...
"To most people, Dedan Kimathi, the man who led the Mau Mau movement in Kenya’s forests in the 1950s to win freedom from the British Empire, has remained a shadowy and enigmatic figure. Attempts to portray his heroic and fascinating life have produced varying results, ranging from historical distortion to artistic idealism. Author: Sam Kahiga ISBN:996649815
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This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. As r...
This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. As relevant today as it was when first published in 1969, THE YEAR OF LIBERTY is now reissued with the addition of a chronology and a glossary of terms. In May 1798 a hundred thousand peasants rose against the British government in Ireland. By the time the revolt had been put down four months later, thirty thousand dead were literally rotting in heaps in a smoking and desolate countryside. Yet it was not a schoolroom story of the heroic oppressed rising against the brutal oppressor, but the result of a complex, tragic, often absurd and sometimes heroic interplay between different groups of people. A tough and arrogant oligarchy of country gentlemen, mainly Protestant and mainly British in origin, lived off a Catholic peasantry. Meanwhile, idealistic merchants and hot-headed young lawyers dreamed and plotted for an Irish Republic on the French model. From a mass of sources including confidential government reports, contemporary newspapers, poems, broadsheets and letters, the author pieces together a story at once complex, tragic, absurd and heroic. Author:Thomas Pakenham ISBN:9780349112527
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Named Churchill's official biographer in 1968, renowned historian Sir Martin Gilbert has amassed exclusive archival and...
Named Churchill's official biographer in 1968, renowned historian Sir Martin Gilbert has amassed exclusive archival and personal documentation to explore the statesman's famed affinity for and relationship with the United States. Churchill and America tells the intensely personal story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, which resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for more than a century. Drawing on this extensive store of Churchill's own words -- his private letters, his articles and speeches, and press conferences and interviews given to American journalists on his journeys throughout the United States -- Gilbert paints a rich portrait of the Anglo-American relationship, illuminated by its most famous proponent. Author: Martin Gilbert ISBN:9780743259934
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