King Leopold's Ghost
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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopold’s
Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime
and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. In the late nineteenth
century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart
and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of
Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory
surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous
colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory,
pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce
the population by half.While he did all this, he carefully
constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian.
King Leopold's Ghost is the inspiring and deeply moving account of
a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to
Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome
holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand
up against Leopold.Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely
untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for
this atrocity. 'All the tension and drama that one would expect in
a good novel' - Robert Harris, author of Fatherland
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Pan Macmillan ,
Hochschild Adam
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Pan Macmillan,
Hochschild Adam
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Slovart
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Slovart
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