Название: The End of Empire. Cyprus: A Soldier's Story
Автор: Martin Bell
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473848180
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB, AZW3, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 224
Размер: 11,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
Martin Bell, the former BBC war reporter and Independent MP, served as a soldier in the Suffolk Regiment during the Cyprus emergency between 1957 and 1959. In a chocolate box in the attic many years later he found more than 100 letters that he had sent home to his family. He was not a journalist then, but the letters give a vivid impression of what it was like to be a conscript on active service during the EOKA rebellion against British rule. They describe road blocks and cordons and searches, murders and explosions and riots – and a strategy of armed repression that ultimately failed. From this beginning he has written The End of Empire.