Introduction
1: The British Colonial Administration and Enosis, 1878-1950
2: Makarios, Grivas, and EOKA
3: 'A game of cops and robbers': The Start of the Insurgency, April
1955-March 1956
4: EOKA versus the Security Forces, March 1956- March 1957
5: Loosing Hearts and Minds
6: 'The Nazi Methods of Hitler': EOKA's Counter-narrative
7: The Governorship of Sir Hugh Foot and the descent into
inter-communal violence, 1957 - 1958
8: The Macmillan Plan and the Zürich and London Agreements
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
David French was born in Essex in 1954 and educated at the
University of York and the War Studies Department at King's College
London. After briefly holding teaching posts at North London
Polytechnic, the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Heriot-Watt
University, he spent 27 years at University College London, before
taking early retirement to become a full-time writer. The author of
eight previous books, he has been the recipient of the Arthur
Goodzeit Prize
of the New York Military Affairs Symposium, and is a three-times
winner of the Templer Medal awarded by the Society for Army
Historical Research. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical
Society and
the Historical Association.
exceptional ... It is no easy task for anyone to write about the
Cyprus emergency because it can excite passions from the various
sides involved, but French succeeds because he tells it how it is.
His account is impressive ... and logically structured. The
argument is based on a thorough analysis of the archival material,
including the recently released FCO files ... as a historian I am
thankful that he has done such a thorough job
*Dr Andrekos Varnava, Reviews in History*
[this book] will surely endure as the authoritative account of the
Cyprus 'Emergency' ... a gripping investigation of a fast-moving
but ultimately exasperating conflict. An 'investigation' for two
reasons: one is that the book's findings rest substantially on
recent releases from the FCO 'migrated archive' of security-related
colonial files; the other is that French, a scrupulous empiricist,
applies the skills of the forensic analysis, cross-referencing
accounts and weighing conflicting evidence to reach his
conclusions.
*Martin Thomas, Intelligence and National Security*
this is an authoritative and exhaustive resource for anyone who
needs to understand the Cyprus emergency in its domestic and
international aspects or is interested in issues surrounding the
control of force and reactions to excessive force and losses of
control.
*Karl Hack, British Journal for Military History*
David French has produced a very readable and lucid account which
offers an excellent analysis of the origins, course, and
consequences of the British counter-insurgency campaign on
Cyprus.
*Simon Robbins, War in History*
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