Title: A piece of trash
Product review: I really looked forward to reading this book, hoping to gain additional insight into a fascinating period of history. Instead I was dismayed to find myself reading what amounts to a politically correct fable. This book is shot through with "it's a possibility that so-and-so did this" and "It's reasonable to assume that such-and-such could have happened". Is this what passes for historical scholarship? Not only that but incredibly there is no evidence given to support the book's central thesis, that millions of Africans were killed during the time of Leopold's control of the Congo. As far as I'm concerned the author accomplished his primary purpose, to grind his politically correct axe at the expense of people no longer alive to defend themselves. If you want to find out about this period and place in history look elsewhere.
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