A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony
It's early afternoon, May 1, 1955, and Donald McWilliams finds himself with other British soldiers in Ndyeia Gorge in central Kenya. At their feet a Mau Mau fighter lies dying, mortally wounded by their gunfire. Raised on the romance of Empire, he'd imagined a great African adventure. But the look in the eyes of that dying rebel sets his life on another course.