Hardcover. Stated 1st edition hardcover with dustjacket 1991 Random House. Very clean; no marks; pages bright. Tiny jacket edge-rips. Spine cloth bowed away from pages at top. 738pp, Index, Chronology, Notes, Bibliography, B/W photos, maps. Language: English. NOTE: Cannot ship outside U.S. via Global Priority -- Surface or Airmail only. 'In scarcely half a generation during the late 1800s, 6 European powers sliced up Africa like a cake. The pieces went to Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Belgium; among them, they acquired 30 new colonies and 110 million subjects. Although African rulers resisted, many battles were one-sided massacres. In 1904 the Hereros ... revolted against German rule. Their punishment was genocide--24,000 driven into the desert to starve; those who surrendered were sent to forced labor camps to be worked to death. In a dramatic, gripping chronicle, Pakenham (The Boer War) floodlights the dark continent and its systematic rape by Europe. At center stage are a motley band of explorers, politicians, evangelists, mercenaries, journalists and tycoons blinded by romantic nationalism or caught up in the scramble for loot, markets and slaves. In an epilogue Pakenham tells how the former colonial powers still dominate the economies of the African nations, most of which are under one-party or dictatorial rule.'--Publishers Weekly, 1991.