Books Bandits and Guns

<p>Tim Moore grew up in Kenya in the early twentieth century as the son of a bookseller. In his lifetime he saw the change from the Protectorate of the British East Africa to Kenya Colony and then to the independent Republic of Kenya.<br />In 1937 Tim signed up as a clerk at the headquarters of the King’s African Rifles; two years later war broke out. Before long he found himself policing occupied territories in East Africa protecting the populace from gangs of armed bandits.<br />After military service Tim joined the Kenya Immigration Department and then became a probation officer watching the development of Kenya’s new probation service from the inside.<br />This book written in Tim’s own words and illustrated by photographs throughout gives a first-hand account of operations on a continent sometimes neglected in accounts of the Second World War.<br /> </p>