Beau Brannon Brannon itibaren Hannington, Swindon, Swindon SN6, United Kingdom itibaren Hannington, Swindon, Swindon SN6, United Kingdom

Here is the tale of a massacre I'd never heard of before. How could the deaths of between eight and ten million people during the twentieth century have escaped my entire education? There are strange gaps in an every-day secondary and collegiate education, and this book went a long way toward rectifying one particularly glaring example. Joseph Conrad's works hinted at something amiss, but I'd never even guessed that the Congo had undergone something even as remotely horrific as what Belgium inflicted on central Africa in the name of collecting rubber. King Leopold is shown to be a master-manipulator of public opinion, and one of the most interesting aspects of the treatise is seeing how international pressure produced results even before the existence of any global bodies. Reading this book was a welcome piece in my on-going efforts to fill up the inexplicable holes in my awareness of history.