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Title: Excellent time capsule of this period in history
Review: It would be easy to fall into the trap of modern liberal myopia and dismiss a book like this as too colonial or racist in nature to be of value, and for sure this book will never be assigned reading in any college course. But I think the parallels with contemporary life and international occupations are rather clear. Places like Iraq, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone in 2011 immediately jump to mind. In addition to crafting a first rate adventure story, the author takes the time to reflect on the conditions that lead up to the Mau Mau insurrection and the British response to it. Only an outsider could relay this objective viewpoint. There is no doubt that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
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