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020			_a9781139342506 (ebook)
020			_z9781107029705 (hardback)
020			_z9781107656246 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aDT433.577 _b.B47 2013
082	0	0	_a967.62/03 _223
100	1		_aBennett, Huw, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFighting the Mau Mau : _bThe British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency / _cHuw Bennett.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (317 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aCambridge Military Histories
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aBritish 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 forces methods, restrictive rules of engagement and surrender schemes prevented the campaign from degenerating into genocide, the army simultaneously coerced the population to drop their support for the rebels, imposing collective fines, mass detentions and frequent interrogations, often tolerating rape, indiscriminate killing and torture to terrorise the population into submission.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107029705
830		0	_aCambridge Military Histories.
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139342506
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38921 _d38921