The end of empire : the Cyprus emergency : a soldier's story
Bell, Martin, 1938-2015
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Martin Bell, the former BBC war reporter and Independent MP, served as a soldier in the British army in Cyprus in the late 1950s during the EOKA rebellion against British rule, and recently he discovered the letters he had written home during the conflict. They describe road blocks and cordons and searches, murders and explosions and riots - and a strategy of armed repression that failed. Now, almost sixty years later, he has used these letters to write 'The End of Empire'. His narrative is a personal account of the violent process of decolonization, of the character of the British army at the time and the impact of National Service on young men who were not much more than 'kids in uniform'.
Main title:
The end of empire : the Cyprus emergency : a soldier's story / Martin Bell.
Author:
Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2015.
Collation:
ix, 209 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes QR code.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781473848184 (hbk)
Dewey class:
956.930309956.9303092956.9303B
Local class:
956.9303092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
76952