Kikuyu tribe members held in an internment camp by the British government during the Mau Mau rebellion. British textbooks today make little mention of atrocities committed by Britain as it tried to hold on to its empire. Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire Author : Erik Linstrum ISBN-13 : 978-0197572030 Publisher : Oxford University Press Guideline Price : £26.99 “The hangman of thousands”, a poster dubbed the British empire in Brendan Behan’s 1958 play The Hostage. Expanded for the radical Theatre Workshop from the shorter Irish-language An...