King Leopold’s Ghost - Adam Hochschild
King Leopold’s Ghost - Adam Hochschild 
At the turn of the century, the scramble for Africa was just beginning. Most of the colonial powers had gobbled up the lands on the coast, but the vast interior was still mostly unexplored by Europeans. It was into this that an ambitious explorer (Henry Morton Stanley) and the king of a small country (Belgium’s King Leopold II) would set into motion one of the great crimes against humanity of modern time.
