King Leopold's Ghost
07 November 2024Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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...
Details
07 November 2024416 pages
9781035038817Imprint: Picador
Reviews
All the tension and drama that one would expect in a good novelRobert Harris
A history like none other . . . an amazing bookTariq Ali, Financial Times
Astonishing . . . Adam Hochschild writes a compelling narrative in lucid prose, one that chronicles a conveniently forgotten atrocity that stains the pages of world history.The Guardian
With this book, Hochschild, like other historians before him, ensures that King Leopold has not gotten away with his efforts to erase the memory of his brutal acts.The New York Times
