دانلود کتاب Fighting the Mau Mau: The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency

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Contents
Maps
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 `A determined campaign against the terrorist bands´
Opening moves, October 1952 to June 1953
Erskine develops an operational plan, June 1953 to April 1954
Dominating the population: Operation Anvil and villagisation, April to December 1954
Eliminating the forest gangs, January 1955 to November 1956
Countering the gangs, controlling the population
2 `Harmonious relations´: soldiers, civilians and committees
Who were the civilians?
The administration
The European settlers
Settler soldiers: the Kenya Regiment
British politics
The Cabinet
Parliament and press
Command and control or war by committee?
The evolving committee system
Intelligence committees
Averting disagreements
Civil-military relations in Kenya
3 `Possibly restrictive to the operations´: marginalising international law in colonial rebellions
Nuremberg and the duty to refuse illegal orders
Attitudes to Geneva\'s Common Article 3
The permissive international legal framework
What isn\'t necessary?
Keeping law weak in colonial rebellions
4 `The degree of force necessary´: British traditions in countering colonial rebellions
Filling the gap? Minimum force in British military thinking
The origins and nature of the concept
Conceptual weaknesses
Exemplary force in British military thought and practice
Exemplary force in theory
Exemplary force in practice - the Boer War
Exemplary force in practice - British India
Exemplary force in practice - the Irish War of Independence
Exemplary force in the wider British Empire
Between minimum and exemplary force
5 `Restraint backed by good discipline´
Discipline in the army in Kenya
Investigating Major Griffiths and preventing wider abuses
Cleaning up, not covering up: the McLean Court of Inquiry
Discipline after McLean
Conclusion
6 `A dead man cannot talk´: the need for restraint
Creating different legal zones
Encouraging surrenders
The 1953 `Green Branch´ surrender scheme
The 1954 `China´ surrender scheme
The 1955 `double amnesty´ surrender scheme
The impact of the surrender schemes
Handling prisoners111
Pseudo-gangs and special forces
`If anything, we go out of our way to give them the odd cigarette and a cup of tea´197
7 `A lot of indiscriminate shooting´: military repression before Erskines arrival
The army\'s conduct towards civilians in the first phase
Beatings and torture
`Shot while attempting to escape´
Collaboration with vigilantes
Forced population movement
A breakdown in command and control?
Mistreatment of the Kikuyu at a low level: the case of `B´ Company, 5 KAR
Major Griffiths
The Chuka massacre
`B´ Company\'s behaviour in context
Setting the pattern? Indiscriminate violence in the opening months
8 `Severe repressive measures´: the army under Erskine
Investigating military misconduct
Unravelling events in 5 KAR
Sergeant Allen: `doing my duty´
Punishing Major Griffiths
Restricting inquiries into military misconduct
Negotiated discipline in practice
Resistance to Erskine\'s orders
Beatings and intimidation
Killings
Continuing coercion against the civilian population
Collective punishment
Army involvement in villagisation
Abusing prisoners
`Severe repressive measures´ and the army in Kenya
9 `An essential part of the campaign´: civil-military alliances
Intelligence
Intelligence collection and analysis
Intelligence exploitation
Expediting intelligence: pseudo-gangs and special forces
Administration
Helping the Home Guard
Policy in the Reserves
Food denial
The use of force
Small-scale patrols
Major offensive operations
Civil-military relations in the Emergency
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary sources
Unpublished sources
British Library Sound Archive, London
British Library, London
Imperial War Museum, Department of Documents, London
Imperial War Museum, Sound Archive, London (IWMSA)
Inniskillings Museum, Enniskillen
Interviews
Joint Services Command and Staff College Library, Shrivenham (JSCSC)
Kenya National Archives, Nairobi (KNA)
Kenya Regiment Archive, to be deposited at the Imperial War Museum, London (KRA)
Military Intelligence Museum, Bedfordshire
National Archives of the United Kingdom, Kew (TNA)
National Army Museum, Department of Archives, Photographs, Film and Sound, London (NAM)
Oxford Development Records Project, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies, Rhodes House, University of Oxford (ODRP)
Royal Commonwealth Society Collection, Cambridge University Library (RCMS)
Royal Courts of Justice, London
The Sandhurst Collection, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Surrey
Staffordshire Record Office, Stafford
Communications
Published sources
Memoirs
Official publications, manuals and parliamentary records
Reference works and newspaper articles
Secondary sources
Index