Qusoma Library & Bookshop Histories Of The Hanged -David Anderson

A brilliantly-written and powerfully-argued portrayal of the political use of the death penalty to crush rebellion. -- Richard J. Evans, author of Rituals of Retribution

Essential reading, not only for everyone interested in decolonisation, but also for people appalled by human rights abuses today -- Joanna Bourke, author of An Intimate History of Killing

Scholarly yet fascinating, unsettling in its revisionism yet readable in its macabre narrative. -- Simon Sebag-Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Star

Will transform our understanding of how the British Empire ended…and force a wide re-evaluation of Britain's modern history. -- Stephen Howe, Oxford University

[A] gripping narrative…a movingly balanced, even sympathetic, understated, and insightful narrative and analysis…all-but-impossible to put down. -- Joseph C. Miller, author of the Herskovitz Prize-winning Way of Death

[A] vivid account of that grim struggle….an important contribution to the history of colonial Africa. -- Thomas Pakenham, author of Scramble for Africa